IPhoto 7: Menu Selections Gray, Photos Don't Show

Trying to install iPhoto 7 (iLife '08) on my dad's iMac G4 (1 GHz, PowerPC, 768 MB RAM, OS 10.4.11) -- ignore the computer info below as that's my own computer, not the one on which I'm trying to install iPhoto.
According to the package and Apple's web site, iPhoto 7 should work on this computer. However, after installing and running iPhoto, the photo library doesn't open and almost all menu selections are gray. I have tried following Apple's instructions for rebuilding the library (holding down Command-Option while starting) and that does not happen. I have tried updating iPhoto 7 to 7.1.4 and the same things happen. I can select the Help menu. I can also select the Preferences menu item but the Preference panel does not open. I can quit iPhoto. That's about it.
I tried rebuilding the old library (iPhoto 2.01) and reinstalling iPhoto 7. Nothing changed. I tried using iPhoto Library Manager to rebuild the library and that made no difference. I cannot manually import photos from the old library because the menu selections don't work.
What am I missing?

Terence -- I really appreciate the time you're taking to try to help me.
I upgraded iPhoto all the way to 7.1.5. Nothing changed.
Per Apple's instructions for rebuilding the photo library, I launched iPhoto holding down the Command-Option keys. Nothing changed -- the library was not rebuilt as far as I could tell.
I tried launching iPhoto with just the Option key pressed as you suggested. Nothing changed -- no menu.
Every time I launch iPhoto, I get the opening splash screen that, if clicked, takes me to the iPhoto page of Apple.com.
Could this be an operating system problem? Do I need to try to reinstall OS 10.4.x and then upgrade back to 10.4.11? I would need to do an "Archive and Install" since I would be installing an earlier version of the OS over the current, older version. If I need to do that, what issues am I facing in order to get the settings (System Preferences, etc.) back to where they are now?

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