Everytime I open iPhoto it is stuck on a buffer symbol.

This has been the same for over a week. Would prefer not to have to go into a genius bar. I just want to import some photos and look at them on my computer. This has never happened before. I have had a macbook pro for a good 3 years and it has given me no problems at all until now. I have restarted the computer. Added software updates. Please help. Thank you.
Mac OS X. Version 10.6.8.

With backup you ll nt onlyh lose  your photos but everything on yoru computer - sooner or later things will fail and with no backup you lose everything
if you want to start over simply drag your iPhoto library to the trash and launch iPhoto createing a new one - your problem is not the software - it is the database and my previous instructions were to fix it but you certainly can just start over too if you choose to
LN

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    Path:            /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
    Identifier:      com.apple.iPhoto
    Version:         9.2.1 (9.2.1)
    Build Info:      iPhotoProject-628000000000000~3
    Code Type:       X86 (Native)
    Parent Process:  launchd [2506]
    Date/Time:       2012-02-29 23:38:09.389 -0500
    OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50d)
    Report Version:  9
    Interval Since Last Report:          55866 sec
    Crashes Since Last Report:           7069
    Per-App Interval Since Last Report:  586 sec
    Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   6
    Anonymous UUID:                      760D6808-6390-4C74-AC44-A5905BEA5E43
    Crashed Thread:  43  com.apple.NSURLConnectionLoader
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    Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
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    0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x9a18dc22 mach_msg_trap + 10
    1   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x9a18d1f6 mach_msg + 70
    2   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x9c54ac7a __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 170
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    6   com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x9c9fd17f RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 318
    7   com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x9ca044e7 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 381
    8   com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x9ca04356 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 88
    9   com.apple.AppKit                        0x0292ea9c _DPSNextEvent + 678
    10  com.apple.AppKit                        0x0292e306 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 113
    11  com.apple.AppKit                        0x0292a675 -[NSApplication run] + 911
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    1   libdispatch.dylib                       0x90529c58 _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 969
    2   libdispatch.dylib                       0x905286a7 _dispatch_mgr_thread + 53
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    1   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x93356e78 _pthread_cond_wait + 914
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    1   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x9a18d1f6 mach_msg + 70
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    3   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x9c553da4 __CFRunLoopRun + 1428
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