Front Row won't Launch

My computer is doing everything perfect, but not launching front row. I have no clues as to why. When I click and hold down over the front row icon in my doc the only options are "Show Front Row" and "Remove from Doc".
Edit:
The "About this mac" will not open as well. I already tried a restart.
Message was edited by: tjsumpthun

I solved it finally myself: I deleted my old photo files and photo albums from iPhoto. Now FR works nicely. Seems that the migrated photo libraries from iPhoto 4 did not fare well with iPhoto 6+Front Row.
Weirdly, this rather straightforward solution is not suggested anywhere...

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