Cannot import any pictures into iPhoto 5

A customer has an iMac/G5/1.8Gig running 10.3.9 and iPhoto 5.x. All worked fine until a few weeks ago, when it would not accept any jpg's that she would try to import into her library. I have removed all her pictures from the library, trashed all prefs, caches and settings, basically starting fresh. I try to bring in her old iPhoto pics, jpgs, whatever, but I get an error for every single item. I can open all these pics in picture viewer fine. I have run Diskwarrior and fixed premissions, no change. I even created a new user account and tried, same thing.
HELP!!
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 256 MB RAM

Julie:
Where are those pictures located when you're attempting to import into iPhoto? Are they physically located inside the iPhoto Library folder? If so then that's the problem. iPhoto will import any file that's inside its folder. Move them to the desktop and try importing again.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application, iPhoto dB file backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar

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