IPhoto 8.0.3 and 8.0.4

I own a new iMac 2.93Ghz 4 Gb RAM.
I recently upgraded iPhoto 09 to 8.0.3 and today to 8.0.4.
Since the 8.0.3 upgrade my large photo library has become really sloooowww. Today when I saw the 8.0.4 upgrade I thought, "great, here comes the fix". NOT.
I am a software engineer myself and it is unbelievable that Apples' iPhoto Testing team was not able to catch this HUGE problem.
iPhoto team, I have an idea for Microsoft's new campaign. iPhoto is not as good as Apple advertises, it is buggy and slow.
Now I realize why I upgraded from my old 20" G5 iMac, because iPhoto 5 was very slow. Just to find that 09 is worse. arggggg. 2.3k $ after, still the same problem ????
I've tried many of the tips on this forum and others (repair permissions, open the console, rebuild cache, vacuuming the database, disabling everything that could slow down iphoto under preferences. And I see small improvements, but nothing significant.
I have not tried to rebuild the cache, since the problem started after the upgrade to 03.
I hope someone from iPhoto team can send this message to the Product Development team and the test team...
Sorry for my long frustration email but I can't help it.
If I'm missing anything to try please let me know.

Try the following:
1 - in iPhoto's Web preference pane set Check for new published photos to manually.
2 - turn of both Look for shared photos and Share my photos in iPhoto's Sharing preference pane.
3 - in iPhoto's Appearance pane uncheck both Outline and Drop Shadow.
4 - in the Photos mode select the option to display Event titles (View->Event Titles) and close all events you're not using.
5 - in iPhoto's Advanced preference pane set Look Up Places to Never. When you do want to work with Place turn that option back on to Automatically.
6- launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. Select the last option. If you work alot with Faces and Places you might do that occasionally. It will help the loading time considerably.
The above should help some.

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