IPhoto 2.0.1 hangs shortly after launch

Question

I have been using iPhoto 2.0.1 for some time on MacOS X 10.2.8 with no
problems. Recently, the program launches and the main window appears but
within a few seconds of launch, the program freezes with the spinning
beachball. It takes two passes at "force quit" to kill it (iPhoto will
be shown in red in the app list).
I have tried the following to resolve, all to no avail:
iPhoto with no iPhoto Library
removing personal library/preferences/comp.apple.iphoto.plist
iPhoto from another user account including root
repairing directory permissions
removing /library/receipts/iphoto.pkg
/library/receipts/iphotoupdate201.pkg
/applications/iphoto
then doing install of iPhoto 2.0.0 and iPhoto 2.0.1 updater
None of these solved the problem. There have been no changes to this
system (no new software, updates, etc.). All other apps are behaving
normally.
System has ~ 1G of RAM and ~ 2G of free space.
Any ideas ?
TIA.
Art

Answer 1

OT,
Thanks for the reply. However, the problem I was exhibiting seems to have cured itself on the startup the next day. Perhaps one of the maintenance tasks run at startup cleared up whatever it was that was causing iPhoto to hang.
I do not keep my system running all night when many of these functions (daily/weekly/monthly) are scheduled to run. From examining the cron log time stamps, it would appear that cron only executes crontab scheduled operations if the computer is actually running at the scheduled time(s). My recollection from System V Unix days was that cron had a "catchup" capability and would recognize that had not run a scehduled task and would execute it at the next boot time or whenever cron was restarted. Apparently the BSD cron doesn't function that way.
I D/L'd OnyX 1.3.1 (the last version for 10.2.8) and will do what you suggest. Seems like a good thing to do periodically anyway.
Regards,
Art