IPhoto 6 not recognized by other programmes

Having installed iWork 08 I tried to include media in a presentation including some photos. The window in Keynote tells me that I should open iPhoto 5 or higher, even though I have iPhoto 6.0.6 open. Trying to trash the preferences of iPhoto and start again hasn´t helped, neither has the HD-Utility found any conflicts. Any good ideas?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Sharing between iPhoto and other apps is facilitated by a file in your iPhoto Library Folder called
AlbumData.xml
Try Quit iPhoto and remove this file to the trash. Then launch iPhoto, it will create the file again.
Regards
TD

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This problem happens only on one iPhoto of one User on the same machine. I tested this - I switched Users, opened another iPhoto and imported the same photos that could not be imported before with mo problem.
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This would be true of a corrupt library - the problems would start when the library was corrupted.
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