IPhoto 6 Empty Trash Crashing Issue (Resolved?)

Having suffered from this for months now, I am still no closer to solving this issue. I believe I have done most things suggested here with varying degrees of partial sucess. Have not re-installed 6.0 or gone back to 5.0.
Can anyone offer anything new to try and resolve this or just sit back and wait for Apple to do something. Any advise appreciated.

Hi Kevin,
I don't have any definite resolution for you, but here is another thread I can refer you to:
cannot empty trash without a crash
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=329293&tstart=0
"I spoke with Apple just now (Apple Care) They said I-photo will not work right with photos on an external drive (I don't know where we are going to store the 250,000 photos it says it will work with). So here is what we did
1. Place my I photo library back in my home folder in the picture folder
2. Open I-photo and you will be asked to find the photo library, mine still crashed so on to step 3
3. Restarted MAC in Safe mode by holding down the shift key after the restart chimes and releasing it after the Apple and the little spinning gear icon showed up.
4. log into the account in safe mode.
5. open I-photo and delete the files from the file menu it worked for me 8000+photos gone
6. restart in normal mode and try I-photo again, and it still works"

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One of my iphoto Libraries have a problem when i right click and ask to empty trash the progress bar shows and it stays this way forever
althought there is only 20 photos in it, i tried putting them all back in there albums and deleted only one photo also same problem accured
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Kindest Regards

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