Endless beach ball in iPhoto when using iChat aswell

When I have iChat running and then open iPhoto, I can only use iPhoto as until I use iChat again. When I then go back to iPhoto, I get a never ending beach ball. Same things happen if i open iChat after having iPhoto open already.
Any ideas what's going on and how to solve it?

I just made this problem happen with the Console open. This is what it said when I launched iPhoto:
2005-09-16 20:27:06.642 iPhoto[829] * -[NSTextField setAllowsMultipleSelection:]: selector not recognized [self = 0x622c90]

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