IPhoto 9.3 & Library upgrades lead to editing glitches...

I recently upgraded to iPhoto 9.3 which required an iPhoto library upgrade as well. Once I did this, the Highlights and Shadows sliders no longer worked properly. Any adjustment of these sliders caused the image to go black. A person with a similar problem posted this in another discussion:
CoreImage: highlightsAndShadows: fragment program failed to compile
I tried myriad of solutions to no avail. (i.e. rebuilt library, rebuilt database, repaired permissions, created new library, created new user account, deleted files from cache and preferences folders, reinstalled iPhoto and upgrades, re-installed Lion.)
Here was my solution (this will only work if you have a time machine backup from before the iPhoto and Library upgrades and an iPhoto installer):
1. Restore iPhoto to a point before the iPhoto 9.3 and Library upgrades
2. Trash iPhoto and Receipts
     Drag iPhoto from Applications folder to Trash
     From Go menu in Finder select Go To Folder and type in /var/db/receipts and delete all iPhoto pkg files
3. From Finder, go to HD/Library/Application Support and delete iPhoto 11 folder
4. Reinstall iPhoto 9.0 from disk and run updates from Apple - Support - Downloads.
     Upgrade to iPhoto 9.1
     Upgrade to iPhoto 9.2.3
I have on older MacBook (black - late 2006). I am refraining from updating to iPhoto 9.3 at this time. I do not know what caused this issue. This solution worked for me and I am once again able to edit my photos.
I hope this helps anyone with similar problems.

Did you reboot your Mac?
This is the iPhoto for iOS forum. I'll report your post and request that it be moved to the iLife > iPhoto forum in thehope yo get more help there.

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Click to view full size
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