Blackscreen, no pics?

Working on i-photo5.0.4 -after several weeks of no problems, selected thumbnails will no longer enlarge beyond about 40%. When I try to enlarge them further the screen turns blank. Thumbnails reappear when scaled down in size.
Also, trying to run an album as a slideshow, I get sound but only a blank black screen. After a few seconds, a dark grey horizizontal panel appears with icons indicating options for going backward and forward, rotating right and left, rating a photo, and trashing. I then have to use "command ." to stop the process. Can't find anyway to get the pics to enlarge or the slideshow to work properly again. Any suggestions? Thanks for whatever help can be offered.

The black screen I complained about occured only when attempting to run a slide show. The more immediate problem was blank white picture frames when attempting to enlarge images (the individual pics) on the i-photo window more than about an inch and a half in width . After giving up trying to solve the prob myself, I called applecare. It took a couple of calls and three tech assistants, but the last one solved the problem of my blank white screen when attempting to enlarge photos. He narrowed the source of the problem down to one of three things: the app itself, a corrupted file in the app, or a corrupted image file. By process of elemination, he had me check each, leaving for last the possibility of a corrupted image file. On reviewing in my mind what he had me do, I realize that after a long & frustrating day I had become fatgigued - hence - I don't trust my memory to recall every step he had me take. I don't want to try to list them and cause more frustration than necessary. I suggest calling 'applecare' and ask to speak with an i-photo specialist. What the specialist had me do involved closing i-photo, going into the HD "root", opening the library folder in my "Home" window and trashing "com.apple.iphotoplist". I had to trash the i-photo preferences, The photo folder was then moved to the desktop, and six of the more than 400 images were selected at random. I-photo was opened and the six images were placed in the i-photo window. They were then tested to see if they could be enlarged without the picture frames turning white.
When it was determined that i-photo was OK, and that preference files were OK, that left only the image files. I had to make a new photo folder in the "Home" window and then bring images from the "old photo" folder a few at a time into the i-photo window - testing enlargement capability each time. Eventually the photos were restored. Three image files had to be discarded because the problem of "blank white picture frames occured when attempting to enlarge them. The i-photo app is working, although I still have to make a new album and test the slideshow to see if the black window has also been solved in the precess.

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