HELP! - Having various probs with iPhoto formatting/constraining images

Hello All,
I'm hoping someone out there can help me solve a few very frustrating problems that are occurring with iPhoto on my system since I upgraded to 10.5.2. These are:
1. It persists in displaying all my thumbnails as compressed squares, regardless of whether they are portrait or landscape. It only does this with photos I have imported since I upgraded but it's hard to see what's what and just looks a bit rubbish. When I actually open up the image it displays correctly though at least.
2. It seems to be struggling to work out whether my photos are portrait or landscape - possibly related to the problem above. If I go to an image and select constrain proportions to, say, 6X4, it automatically brings up the cropping box as either a landscape within a portrait pic, or a portrait within a landscape pic. When I scroll down to see whether it is selected as 'constrain to [portrait/landscape], it remains unticked, so I have to tick it with the wrong choice to enable me to then click it again with the right constraint before I can edit my pics - laborious and extremely annoying again!
3. It just crashes ALL THE TIME!! It was always a slow programme but it literally crashes once every 2-5 minutes without fail now. All in all photo editing has become an extremely laborious, tedious and time consuming process - hence I have a camera full of three months pics waiting to be uploaded at present!
Everything else seems to be fine with the computer, all other programmes working normally, just iPhoto - if anyone has any ideas on what I can do or experience of the same problems please do let me know! Have tried installing the latest iPhoto updates online and have played around with the settings etc but all to no avail. Can anyone out there help me?!?
Yours hopefully!

Jolene
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
the cropping issue will not change except that it should always start in landscape mode (I believe) - but for a portrait photo you have to do the two step selection - let Apple know of your suggestion - iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback)
How big a hard drive do you have and how much space is free? You should have 10% of the drive with no less than 10GB free space for proper OS X operation
As to the three months photos on your camera I would recommend that you use image capture to copy them to your computer (it is in your Applications folder) and back them up for safety
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