Can't pick photos from iPhoto as wallpaper

Hi,
The photo picker in System Preferences > Destop & Screen Saver doesn't work for photos in iPhoto anymore. It shows Apple, iPhoto and Folders but there is no content in iPhoto, nothing no Events no albums. And it doesn't seem to be loading (no beachball).
The iPhoto Library is very large, so is there a limitation?
The photo picker in iWeb for example is working fine, though.
Reimporting every photo into a new library didn't make any difference.
Many thanks!

I found this thread describing the exact same problem.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2136604
Seems to be a bug.

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