IPhoto 6 - Sharing Problem

Hello all,
I'm hoping someone can help me out, or point me in the right direction.
Here's my set up:
I have a G5 with an external drive where my iPhoto library lives. I have a bunch of albums checked for "sharing" which I access from my G4 powerbook on my network.
Problem:
Everything was working fine when I was using iPhoto5 and then I upgraded my powerbook to iPhoto 6 and everything was still cool even though I was still using iPhoto 5 on my G5.
I just installed iPhoto 6 on the G5 (with the external drive, where the entire library is)and now only a handful of photos will load when accessing from my powerbook?
All I see is the little grey-dashed line of where the image should be, but they never load, it's like it just hangs there...
I'm stumped, and have no clue what happened, I do know that it rebuilds all the thumbs, etc.. but I haven't changed anything else.
I hope I'm making sense here, and that maybe someone has a clue?
Thanks for reading.. 'preciate it.
G5, G4 Powerbook, iBook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Neuarmy:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Do you have Ownership & Permissions turned off on the external HD? If not and you don't need to have that enabled turn it off.
If you need to have it turn on then try the following: download and run BatChmod on the iPhoto Library folder with the settings shown here, substituting your account name for mine. You can either type in the path to the folder or just drag the folder into that field.
The problem may be subtle changes in the permissions so this will set every thing in the folder to your access. Select the group that will be good for both computers unless you have both setup with the same account name, etc.

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