IPhoto 09 (8.1.2) keeps quitting during large import

Hi.
Have always disliked iPhoto but use it anyway. Now I am disliking it even more.
Is there a maximum number of images iPhoto can add to a library at one time? Is there a maximum number of photos you can have in your iPhoto Library? Currently there are 5427 photos in my Library. I have a folder on my desktop of 1100 RAW (.nef) images and every time I try to import them, it gets part way through and then just up and quits, no error #, just "There was an error blah blah blah....". If I copy the 1100 images to an external drive and try to import from that, it quits part way through. In Preferences/Advanced it doesn't matter if "Copy Items to the iPhoto Library" is checked or not, iPhoto quits either way. Last time it imported 500 or so, then quit; when I reopened iPhoto, those 500 showed up as Last Import, but when I navigated back to the folder to try and import the remainder, the usual "Hide images already imported" was not there, and it began to import them all over again......any ideas? Also, iPhoto is the only application open during any of this.
Running a MacBook Pro, 2.53 Ghz Intel Core Duo, 4 gigs of RAM, OS X 10.7.5.
Thanks in advance!

Honesty is a good policy
Currently there are 5427 photos in my Library.
don't have the time to port a few hundred gigs over to Bridge
simply does not compute
We can help but only if you provide accurate and honest information
For exaple I have over 55,000 potos and my iPhoto library is only 317 GB total including versions and supprot files - even for me my photos only use 241 GB - so youo clearly do not have "a few hundred gigs" in 5427 photos
You stated that you dislike iPhoto - the only possible answer to that is to change programs since no one here can change iPhoto (and even if we could it is very unlikely that anyone would change it to make you happy) - so you have the answer to your "dislike" of iPhoto
and you have the answer to import crashes -
second since you think it is due to too large an import - there is no limit but issues such as image size, memory size, available disk, etc, etc, etc may make large import fail - so very simply do 4 imports of 300 or so photos rather than one of 1100
Time to quit complaining and take action
You have a nice day now!
LN

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