IPhoto 6 no longer opening images on external HD

I have been using an external HD for about 9 months and it holds my iTunes and iPhoto libraries. In the past few months I have encountered a problem opening photos with iPhoto: I can see the photo rolls (thumbnails), but when I double click on the thumbnail, the image flashes up at full size but then disappears and is replaced by an error page (grey backgound, white dotted line around where the image would have been, and an exclamation mark in the middle). The curious thing is that I only have this problem with landscape photos - portrait photos open without any problems. This problem applies to new photos as well as photos that have previously been opened while on the external HD.
I can open the images in other applications (including Photoshop, safari, and firefox) without any problems. I also have no problems with the iTunes library.

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