IPhoto 11 video and manual sorting..

Hi all. I was fortunate and went through the upgrade without any issues. Everything went smooth. However I have two issues after the upgrade - and still after updating to 9.0.1.
Videoclips: When playing a slideshow the videoclips from my camera are blue colour only. All colours are fine in thumbnails in iPhoto and when playing the clips separately.
*Manual sorting*: Has been totally messed up in some of my albums. Sorting by date works fine but the manual sorting is what I want and what I spent many many hours on to perfect my visual presentations. That work seems to be lost now.
I guess I have been lucky compared to the rest of you, but it seems like Apple has - one more time - released software without properly testing their new stuff.
Sad but true...

Create a new test library, import several photos, put them in an album and see if you can sort them manually. If you can this points to a damaged library.
If you can't sort in the test library log into another user account on your Mac and try the test there. If you can't then it seems a reinstall of iPhoto is warranted. To do so you'll have to delete the current application and all files with "iPhoto" in the file name with either a .PKG or .BOM extension that reside in the HD/Library/Receipts folder, reinstall iPhoto from the disk it came on and apply the latest updater.
If you can sort in the other user account then your account appears to be the culprit. It could be a preference file other that iPhoto's that's causing the problem. Post back with the results and if you need to test your account I'll give you directions.

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