IPhoto 8.x edit, rotate; portion of photo turns black

iPhoto woes:
Scanned JPEG image prints okay. Thumbnail looks right.
Slight rotating and/or slight cropping of image image prints right size but print is black NOT image. Thumbnail is now black.
Scanned TIFF image, rotated and/or cropped image prints okay. Thumbnails okay.
Back seems to be layered over the image on sides and/or top and bottom.. Printed to PDF also has same large blacked areas.
Any insights?

More detail:
The images were scanned using the Kodak All in One ESP 7 scanner and saved in a folder.
Then I dragged the images folder into iPhoto and iPhoto would begin the export but crash. When I relaunched iPhoto, no images had been imported, but it would notify me there were un-imported images and ask if I wanted to continue the import. "19 photos have been found in the iPhoto Library that were not imported. Would you like to import them?"
Answered yes and it would begin the import again, but then crash again. Some of the image would import before the crash. I would then find a new folder in my Pictures folder with the photos that were not imported. The folder was named "iPhoto Library Recovered Photos"
In iPhoto, I would edit (rotate, crop) a photo that had been imported successfully. Then the black swatches would show up on the image.
When Terence Devlin asked about the color profile I tried an experiment. I opened each photo from its original location using Preview. Then I used Preview's Tool menu and chose "change color profile" and I selected the Adobe RGB (1998) and saved each image.
I then deleted my entire iPhoto Library file, relaunched iPhoto, dragged the scanned files (with the Adobe RGB color profile into iPhoto. Same problem as before, but 24 instead of 12 were able to successfully import after the first crash when it offered to reimport the un-imported images.
Humm. Then I noticed that 16 of the 76 image names began with a space. FIxed those and tried again. Still crashes iPhoto when it tries to complete the import when it's relaunched after the crash.

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