Icons disappear in MobileMe gallery?

Hi all,
Here's a little strangeness! I upgraded to latest iPhoto, have the latest Leopard, brand new MacBook Pro 17, etc.
Sometimes I put movies (professionally made from Final Cut Pro) in iPhoto and bring them into a MobleMe gallery. Very easy, convenient way to post approvals for clients, etc. This has always worked well. Email the link to client, they click and see QT movie. Voila!
All of a sudden, I'll post 2 or 3 movies to a new MobileMe gallery - they look fine, the link works well - they look fine on the internet - EXCEPT THEN, MAGICALLY - they'll disappear from the Mobileme gallery page in iPhoto!!! The page is blank!
The movies are still on the website they were sent to - but the "design" page in iPhoto shows nothing is there?? This just started happening - perhaps it's coincidental with my upgrading to 8.02 in iPhoto? Anyone else have this issue . . . all am I all by myself out here Lonely feeling! So I trashed the iPhoto prefs, repaired disk permissions, rebuilt entire library, restarted - and started over making a brand new mobileme gallery page with 4 movies. Again, they finished publishing, perfect on the web and **** - did it again - the icons just disappeared from the mobileme gallery page. (But they're still on the web.)
Anybody have any thoughts?
Thanks,
Larry

Thank you, Old Toad! You've helped me before. Actually I did rebuild the library - my first post I believe I mentioned all that. But - look at this, Apple answered me. They are able to recreate the same problem there, so it looks like, I guess, I've found a real live BUG. Hard for me to believe thousands of others aren't running into the same issue. I've never actually used iMove before, as we always use Final Cut. But, here's what Apple just wrote me this morning . . .
Larry
Dear Larry,
Thank you, the description you posted in Discussions clarified the issue, please note though that the "page" you took a picture of is not a page but is the main window of iPhoto itself, and with the description I had before I was merely looking at your Gallery itself on the web at http://gallery.me.com/larrycohen3 which all looks just fine.
Following your description though I easily recreated the behavior in multiple test MobileMe accounts with iPhoto 8.0.2, and we appreciate your taking the time to bring this behavior to Apple's attention.
I've provided the details of your report to the MobileMe Engineering team. As always, the Engineering team appreciates feedback as part of its efforts to resolve issues and improve the MobileMe experience. Apple won't contact you again about this issue unless we have questions about the information you provided.
While the engineers explore possible solutions to this issue in iPhoto 8, as a workaround use the Gallery management tools on the web to manage your published albums that include movies in them after publishing. To access this page on the MobileMe site:
1. Open Safari or Firefox and visit www.me.com and log in.
2. Click the Gallery button at the top of the page, it looks like a sunflower.
3. View and manage your albums on the resulting page. The direct link is:
http://www.me.com/gallery
Thank you again for bringing this to Apple's attention and we apologize for any inconvenience it may cause.
If you need assistance with a different MobileMe issue in the future, please visit our website to find answers to common questions, and if necessary, submit a question to Apple by filling out the web form at this site, live chat support experts will be happy to assist at any time:
http://www.apple.com/support/mobileme
Sincerely,
Mike
MobileMe Support Specialist

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