IPhoto and mosaic screen saver in OSX

I use the mosaic screen saver, which pulls photos from iPhoto. Recently, I've been getting blank pictures in the mosaic-I have not deleted any photos recently. Is there a way to rebuild the pictures that the mosaic screen saver uses? I've got iPhoto 09, but the problem was also there when I was using 08.

Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the apple and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild.
Regards
TD

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