Frustrated with IPHOTO '08

I just purchased a new iMac desktop computer along with the iLife '08 software. I am having a great deal of difficulty with iPhoto. After repeated crashes and 20 minutes on hold with the Apple technical support phone line I was instructed to reinstall the Mac Operating System which I did. It helped somewhat as it is no longer crashing (yet), but I am now unable to edit or apply 'event titles' to any of the events that I had already imported or any new events. I do know how to apply event names as I have done this before, however when I click on the 'untitled event' field, the field does open up to allow typing in a name, but the field will not allow any text to be entered. This applies to events already in the system as well. Please advise.
Frustrated and disappointed!

FIXED! I found a discussion further along related to this same challenge. I opened the Application folder/Utilities/Terminal.app folder and typed (I copied and pasted the commands in the terminal to ensure I did not make a typo error) in the following commands one by one and then hit return after each. The last command reboots the computer and when I reopened iPhoto, my problem was fixed.
After you put in the first command below and hit enter, you will be asked for your password that you setup when you setup your computer.
For those who may have the same issue these are the commands I typed in to the terminal.app application:
_*execute the following commands in terminal*._
sudo chown root:admin /Library/Fonts/*
sudo chmod 644 /Library/Fonts/*
sudo rm /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/*/fonts.db
sudo reboot
The commands above: Fix the ownership, fix the permission, and force a rebuild of the library folder.

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OT

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Welcome to the Apple user discussion forums
1 - back up your iPhoto library
2 - rebuild the library (launch iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) and the command (apple) keys - try the first three options first
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Is there a major flaw with Iphoto in regards to organizing and backing up? And how should I proceed??
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