IPhoto 8.1.2 won't play slideshow or edit or export photos

iPhoto stopped playing slideshows and has been doing this weird intermittent "refresh." I updated to Snow Leopard in hopes that that would fix the problem,but now iPhoto will ONLY get the photos from my camera - no editing, no slideshows, no sharing, etc. I have iPhoto 8.1.2.

I don't know what happened, but now I can edit and export, etc. Slideshow still will not work. It just keeps doing something that looks like it is refreshing the screen - kind of a fade out and fade in. I'm not sure if it's because my version of iPhoto is out of date?

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