Editing photos in album for book and freeze

Hi,
I have just upgraded to 5.0.4 and am using Panther 10.3.9 at the moment. I am trying to make a book with a library of 700 photos. I am first creating an album and editing it down to about 30 photos. Now I am editing the individual photos, crop, enhance, sharpen, etc.
I have had a crash during the saving photo. This was happening all the time (crashes, SPWOD, freeze) when I did a large book with 5.0.2 and had a 2000+ photo library. I thought I had addressed the problem by upgrading, using iphoto buddy, keeping the library small.
Do other people have no problem editing everything right in iPhoto, or should I do that in Photoshop and import the pics. I prefer to do it right in iPhoto, but not if it freezes all the time!
Thanks!

First repair disk permissions with Disk Utility and then manually set the permissions on your iPhoto Library folder as follows:
Setting Permissions for iPhoto Library Folder
1 - Select the iPhoto Library folder and type Command-I.
2 - When the Info window comes up go to the Ownership and Permissions section and make sure You have Read & Write permission and that the Owner and Group have Read & Write also. Others - Read Only.
3 - Then click on the "Apply to enclosed items..." button.
One way to give it another go is to export those 30 photos to a folder on the desktop, create a new library and import them into it. Now you have a minimum sized library and can try to shake down the problem. I make a new library for each book I've created. Makes things smaller and faster. I use iPhoto Buddy to easily move between libraries.
It's my opinion that it's best to use Photoshop for your editing. That's also what I do. But I do it from within iPhoto by setting PS as my editor of choice in iPhoto's General preference window under "Double-click: Open photo in:"
The only caveat is doing it that way is if you must keep the file name and extension the same. If you create a layered file that necessitates an extension change to .psd then you must save to the desktop and import as a new file. Simple edits you save as usual.
Have you tried deleting the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist? It may help fix the crashing problem. Another potential fix would be to rebuild the library, after making a backup copy of the iPhoto Library folder beforehand, selecting all option but the one regarding orphaned files.
Hope this has been of some help. Good luck.
OT

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