Empty Events

Man, this is the crappiest upgrade Apple has ever put out. I've solved a lot of issues by rebuilding the library, fixing permissions, etc. Importing photos is still flakey, and I've had to rebuild the library many times just to get newly imported photos to show up.
My current problem is that after the latest round of permission fixes, rebuilding, etc., I now have several Events that are empty. It just shows a generic illustration of the palm tree photo from the iPhoto application icon. The steps I took were to 1) repair permissions using disk utility 2) fix permissions using Batchmod 3) rebuilding the library.
First, any idea why these events are suddenly blank They weren't blank in prior rebuilds (I don't think)? Second, I can't seem to find a way to delete these empty events - any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

Do you get a message about MMe when you first open iPhoto? If so try the following:
Click on the More Info button and ignore the web page, go to iPhoto's Accounts preference pane and delete the MobileMe account. Next to go the System/MobileMe preference pane and log out of MMe. That will stop those messages.
If not make sure MMe is deleted from iPhoto's Accounts preference pane and log out of MMe in the System/MobileMe preference pane.
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Super! Thanks for the guidline for providing better detail.
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I recently tried opening my iPhoto to find that all of my events and albums are empty! They are all still there, and organised, and named in the same way as when I was last looking at them, but when I open an event, the only photo in there is the key photo. When looking at event view, each event has a black and white picture of a palm tree, and that's it! I checked in Finder, and my iPhoto library is still there, still intact, and still the same size as it was, so what's happened?
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I have a number of recent events showing as follows:
I have tried the repair and rebuild thumbnails tools.
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When the event is clicked, it opens with the photos that I chose for the event.
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I downloaded some pictures from a memory card into i-photo. I looked at a few after they were downloaded. When I looked in events later they were not there but there was a grey picture of a plam tree with a sun in each event box under each date. Does anyone know where these files went and if they can be recovered? I can't find them anywhere.

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Fix #1
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Fix #2
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Here`s the screenshot.
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