Can't edit certain photos in iPhoto'11

I am running iPhoto'11 under OSX10.7.2 and seem to have run into trouble with a lost connection between some of my thumbnails and their respective preview files.  Trying to open the photos to edit them brings up the dreaded triangle with an exclamation mark in it. 
I have also noticed that these same photos synced to my iPhone 4S, have their correct thumbnails but open up photos from completely different albums that I haven't synced (no exclamation marks this time)! 
I have followed the instructions noted in this forum to rebuild my library - which didn't help.  I've also noted the suggestion to rebuild the library using iPhoto Library Manager but would prefer to sort out the problem within iPhoto without having to resort to a 3rd party solution if possible, so that I can leave the photo file structure as is.
Has anyone got any thoughts as to how to fix these problems? 
Thanks.

If rebuilding the Library with iPhoto's own tools didn't work then your choices are limited:
Restore from your working back up
Rebuild with iPhoto Library Manager
That's it.

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