IPhoto Access Privileges

Hi
I hope there is a simple answer to this one for a Pages newbie.
I have been following a tutorial in MacUser to make a photo cube in Pages. When trying to import some images using the media browser I get the message 'The image file IMG_XXXX.JPG can't be used because you don't have access privileges, or because it has no content or it is corrupted'. This is happening on the majority (but not all) of the pictures I am trying to import.
I have repaired permissions, checked out the ownership (I am the only user of the machine) and had a quick look around the discussion boards to no avail.
I can drag the photos from Aperture without a problem so I am guessing it may be an iPhoto problem - will duplicate this post on that forum.
Does anyone have a fix please? Any and all help appreciated.
Thanks for looking
Tim
iMac Intel Core Duo 20", G4 Powerbook 15" Alu, 60Gb iPod Video, 4Gb iPod Mini   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Hi Brie
Thanks for the response. Yes - I should have said, all pictures are in iPhoto and in the same user account .
I think I have solved it...well sort of.
I dragged the iPhoto library to the desktop and then relaunched iPhoto. It gave a message something like 'no libraries found' so I clicked to create a new library and dragged the folder into iPhoto.
Whilst I lost all my albums it should be fairly easy to recreate them.
Thanks
Tim

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