IPHoto 11 continually hangs

I am becoming very frustrated with iPhoto 11. First, I hope the development team reads this and can fix it.
Every time I try and drag a photo to a slide show the cursor turns into a wheel and just starts spinning. Then after waiting for 20 seconds or more I go to Force Quit in the apple menu, only to discover that iPhoto is not responding.
I have repaired the database several times and am now rebuilding the database.
Following the rebuilding of the database, at least one of my slide shows is completely screwed up, with completely wrong photos in it. Then when I go and select another slide show, iPhoto crashes.
I am getting more and more concerned with this product and am starting to think it is not liveing up to the quality of product that Apple has been known for. I sure hope this is not a sign of things to come now that Apple is on top.
Cheers,
J

Note that as stated in the TOU this is a user to user support forum - while the Apple develpoment team might possibly read this it is not likely and they probably will not respond even if they do - at best it goes into their bugs to fix list if it is considered a bug
Most likely it is library corruption which generally is not a result of a bug but of a failure of somesore specific to your system
If you have used the iPhoto "rebuild library' and it wa uncessful yoru next step is to restore the backup you made prior to rebuilding and tey ipiPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - to rebuild your library - it creates a totally new rebuild library so yoru original one is untouched if you do not like the results of the trbuild
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