Can't open an iPhoto library, but my wife can from her account

Just reinstalled my system in the last month, but now all of a sudden, I am unable to open our shared iPhoto Library which is stored on a second drive that has no permissions set. But I have no problem accessing the library from my wife's account. Any suggestions? Can I delete a file in my ~/Library/Preferences folder to correct the situation?
Thanks.

Jeff:
When you try to open it what happens? Do you get any message? Try deleting your iPhoto Preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist. Then launch iPhoto with the Option key down. You'll be greeted with the first time user window and then with the option to create a new library or find one. Choose find and select the one on the external. That should reset your links.
If it still doesn't open, manually check the ownership and permissions setting on the library folder to make sure it's set for all to access. Reset it to Read & Write for all entities and click on the Apply to enclosed... button.

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