IPhoto 6: Does it fix the large maker note and slowness issue???

I'm hopefull that the newly released iPhoto 6 resolves the problem that many of us with certain Pentax and Nikon cameras are having (creating a bloated library.iphoto file due to a larger maker note ... refer to http://www.ericlindsay.com/apple/iphoto5slow.htm for more info.). In essence, this issue makes iphoto painful to use as it takes minutes to start up, up load photos and shut down the program.
Does ANYONE know if this problem is fixed with iphoto 6 (note that iphoto 4 did NOT have this issue)??? Any insight greatly appreciated!
Tanya
iMac   Mac OS X (10.4.2)  

Matt you make a very forceful case for your app, which is understandable since no doubt some effort was needed to create it, and it does what it is meant to do. For that, congratulations and many thanks.
But, as pointed out by the previous contribution, just throwing away the makernote data is not a true solution. The maker, in my case Pentax, but also Nikon and a few others, put it there for some good reason. In fact it is not superfluous or unnecessary as you have written elsewhere.
If you are prepared to search around a wee bit, you can find descritipons of the Pentax makernotes which show that they store information which may be highly relevant to, for instance, photographers, trying to get the best out of their extremely configurable and complex digital cameras. Now 30k may seem big when attached to some vignettte out of a 2mpix point and shoot. In my case, sorry to be personnal, average jpeg size is 1.9 Megs (over about 5000 pix) and 30k is neither here nor there.
It definitely does not justify iphoto screwing up so badly. As a Mac user of 20 years, I do not plan to acquire iLife 6 if the correction is not confirmed. and blaming camear manufacturers for improperly implementing exif is so feeble I shall stop ranting now.
Meanwhile contributing workarounds such as yours is a valuable part of the mac community ethos. Keep it up!

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