IPhoto album not publishing

I just started to have this problem lately. I have tried Apple support via iChat regarding MobileMe but so far...no luck. The problem is that I cannot publish new pictures to an existing published album. I get the following error message in iPhoto...."An error has occured with the publication of album.....Your mobileme account information is not correct. The provided login or password is not valid". We've tried changing passwords to no avail. My mobileme account appears active and running. When I use another Mac (at home), publishing albums on that Mac is OK. I'm thinking it's an iPhoto issue. On the Mac I'm having problems with, when I'm in the published gallery, the "settings" button is not active.
I'm running iPhoto 09 (v8.1.2)
Mac OS 10.5.8
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Randy

Try quiting iPhoto or restarting iTunes, or turning the Apple TV off and on, or basically anything to close and re-open the homeshare connection.

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I usuaully can fix these issues myself but this one has me frustrated. I bought a new Mac around 6 months ago and transferred all photos to the new computer. Everything was working perfectly. However, recently I have added photos to iPhoto in a few new albums. Now, when I try to sync photos with my iPad/iPhone all the old albums are there but none of the new ones are shown. I also cannot stream any of the new albums through to my AppleTV as they do not appear.
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Fix #1
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
Since only one option can be run at a time start with Option #3, followed by #4 and then #1 as needed.
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5 - Click on the Create button.
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