IPhoto '09 issues under Lion

I'm running iPhoto '09 (8.1.2) under Lion (10.7.2). I've been trying to make a calendar, but iPhoto seems to have issues. I started by duplicating a calendar from last year and trying to apply a new theme. This causes iPhoto to become unresponsive until I click on a different calendar in the 'Keepsakes' list on the left panel. Additionally, adding photos to the project often doesn't work - I drag photos to the project but they don't appear in the photo list when I open the project.
Does iPhoto '09 have any limitations under Lion? I would upgrade to iPhoto '11 but the calendar theme choice is much more limited than iPhoto '09.
thanks!
Dan

No there are no specific issues with iPhoto 09 and 10.7
Try trash the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file from the HD/Users/ Your Name / library / preferences folder.
(On 10.7: Hold the option (or alt) key while clicking on the Go menu in Finder to access the User Library)
(Remember you'll need to reset your User options afterwards. These include minor settings like the window colour and so on. Note: If you've moved your library you'll need to point iPhoto at it again.)
What's the plist file?
For new users: Every application on your Mac has an accompanying plist file. It records certain User choices. For instance, in your favourite Word Processor it remembers your choice of Default Font, on your Web Browser is remembers things like your choice of Home Page. It even recalls what windows you had open last if your app allows you to pick up from where you left off last. The iPhoto plist file remembers things like the location of the Library, your choice of background colour, whether you are running a Referenced or Managed Library, what preferences you have for autosplitting events and so on. Trashing the plist file forces the app to generate a new one on the next launch, and this restores things to the Factory Defaults. Hence, if you've changed any of these things you'll need to reset them. If you haven't, then no bother. Trashing the plist file is Mac troubleshooting 101.

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I'm have iPhoto '08 (7.1.5) and it appears to run fine under Lion. At least it starts up, lets me see photos, plays slideshows, etc. I use Aperture, not iPhoto, these days so I have not imported anything into iPhoto since moving to Lion but I have some older slideshows in iPhoto so I keep it around.

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My wife has a newish 27" iMac, loads of memory, just updated to Lion and Pages 4.1. She dragged me into her office to show how slow Pages 4.1 is while typing in a document that has graphics, about 1/2 second to render each character. Same behavior with the previous version of Pages under Lion, but never an issue under Snow Leopard. Not a problem with a text-only document.
Known issue? Any thoughts about a workaround?

It's not Lion which isn't optimized.
Pages which was already a snail just received a quick and dirty update to accomodate the Lion features and of course this kind of addition never enhace performances.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 3 août 2011 10:36:18
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0
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