Iphoto 08 has missing photos and wheel of death

Bought new imac and upgraded to iLife 08. Upgraded my photo library of some 4000 photos all looked fine at first.
Noticed that in the middle of the photo library are about 20 or so missing photos they display as dashed grey squares. If you scroll so you have these thumbnails on the screen or open an event with these photos in you get the wheel of death and you either have to force quit iphoto or wait for ever to quit iphoto.
I have rebuilt the photo library and used the batchmod tool as described on another post. I have also searched for and removed alias links etc.
Now at a loss as to next move. I have the photos on my old laptop running previous iphoto version plus a few older DVD backups.
Is it anything to do with my old photo ipod?
I could just delete the iphoto library and start over importing from scratch but what if it happens again? Any advice?

It means that your main Library has a damaged database file.
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

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