IPhoto cannot show photos unless scrolling or resizing!

The following happens both for event and pictures. The difference being that in events there are black empty heightened button like boxes for each event, while in pictures there is an empty gray box bordered with white dashes.
In either view, when I cklick on the scrollbar on the right side and scroll up or down there are actual pictures shown in these boxes. But as soon as I stop scrolling I'm back to empty black or grey boxes with no pictures at all. When scrolling to the top (that is reaching the top and not being able to scroll any further up) in the pictures view, some of the pictures stay on the screen until I move the mouse over them, at which time they go blank (grey with withe dashed border) again.
Faces also behave the same with the exception of a cork background and white photo border with name and no pciture whitin. Here scrolling has no effect. The faces are never shown no matter what.
Pictures can be shown by clicking on them, enlaraging the photo and showing only that photo.
Not being able to see any photos in thumbnail view makes it very difficult (or rather impossible) to use iPhoto and organize your pictures.
The last import from my camera also crashed iPhoto completely loosing the import.
I think my problems coincided with me buying and installing iPhoto 09. Is there any way to get this version working or is there a way to revert back to the old version?
I really need iPhoto working so that I can make albums that I can show on my TV through DLNA and my PS3, and also publish on my mobileme gallery, which do require a working iPhoto.
I really liked iPhoto, and I want it back again! Please, please, someone help me get iPhoto working again! Using Mac and mobileme I'm completely out of other options.

Thanks for the replies. Terrence, I saw your suggestion in other posts, but following that instruction had no effect what so ever. iPhoto just started as usual, and nothing else happened.
After poking around in the "iPhoto Library" filestructure i did find a folder called "Originals" which seemed to contain all my original photos, so I copied them elsewhere, deleted the "iPhoto Library" folder. When I started iPhoto again after that it created a new "iPhoto Library", and then I imported all my photos from my copy of "Originals". It took a while, but it seems to work now. I did loose all my albums except those published to mobileme.
iPhoto is a very nice application. Too bad that it is not very stable.

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Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
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megsav,
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--First thing to know and remember is this...Do not drag any images, folder of images into the iPhoto Library in the Finder. Images have to be imported into iPhoto within the application. Do not scan images and save them into the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder. Save them to another location such as the Pictures folder or even the desktop. You can then import them into iPhoto.
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-- you scan a picture/pictures and save it in a folder. You cannot scan directly into iPhoto or the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder.
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