Front row is slow, no previews | iphoto

i'm really disappointed by front row's speed when it comes to organising > 1500 photos (ext. fw hdd). it's SOOOOOOOOOOOO slow, because everytime i enter the photo arena or a photo album in front row it seems to scan and/or read in the whole iphoto library. iphoto itself doesn't have any problems when accessing my pics. i've rebuilt the whole indices with no success at all.
furthermore no preview images show up in frontrow. just when i check "import images in iPhoto lib", preview images are shown in frontrow.
anybody similar problems?
any hints?
thanks!
jo

i'm using a mac mini dual core with 1 gb of ram.
i've tried it (lib internal, pics external) without successs. FR still indexes/reads in every album, when i'm accessing the photo department. as i said: iphoto itself doesn't have any problems, nor this slowness. maybe i should give it a try and reimport everything and/or movev all the pics to the internal hdd. but actually this is what i don't want: i just want to have my library and my pics on the external hdd...
why does iphoto/frontrow have such stupid limitations?
thanks for ur help!
mac mini 1.66 dc, 1 gb ram Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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