Endless beach Ball. Impossible to work with Motion.

Impossible to work with Motion since I have my new Apple 23" Cinema display, I did the quick time stand alone thing, got rid of the .plist and just do not know where to go from there. Any suggestion would be appreciated

At this stage, if the whole machine is slowing down I'd suspect a disk or memory problem.
Try the following few things.
1. Run the 'Disk Utility', select each volume in turn and click 'verify volume' for each one.
2. Run the 'Disk Utility', select each volume in turn and click 'verify disk permissions' for each one.
None of the above are destructive, ie they only check for problems, not fix them. Each has a counterpart 'Repiar Volume' and 'Repair permission' which do attempt to fix problems. Use with caution. They are normally very safe to use, and don't normally result in data loss, but I'd be a fool not to say "ensure you have a backup of anything you can't afford to lose."
Finally, just in case something shook loose when you attached the new display, click the Apple menu, select 'About this Mac' and 'More info...' and check that the profile shown matches your expectations in terms of the amount of memory fitted etc etc.
Of course, all of the above may be a little overkill if it's just some weird problem related to the new display, so before doing any of that, put the old display back on and see if the problem goes away.

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Like I mentioned in the post, corruption was probably ruled out by running all the Admin features at iPhoto startup (e.g., Rebuild, etc.). I also stated in my post that I also ran a Disk Verify and Repaired Permissions in OSX (via Disk Utility). I also emptied system Library cache files as I stated in my post.
I was paid to figure out the solution and am not getting paid to troubleshoot for Apple. The more unplaced photos there are in a Book project, the longer it takes to build thumbnails. It's an old general problem in computing when building lists on the fly.
The delay happened for all Book projects with lots of unplaced photos (almost*** certainly more than Apple imagined a user would use), and the beach ball delay was proportional to the number unplaced photos, which super large numbers of photos.
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I'm done with this.
My client's iPhoto works well now and she knows how avoid placing exorbitant numbers of unplaced photos into her project. I'm not getting paid to answer all this, so good night.
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Here the Maintainance Pack Log:
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Corrupt / Unsupported Media
This crash was caused by corrupt media or media that is unsupported by Final Cut Pro. A common cause of this crash is using media on your timeline that is unsuitable for editing such as AVI, WMV or MPEG-derived codecs (XDCAM, HDV, MPEG-2, H.264).
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