Iphoto crashes while trying to buy book

Question

I've bought quite a few books without any problem, but now everything works fine until I click buy book, it will start assembling the book, its finshing that part...pauses for a second and then crashes.
I've tried repairing disk permissions, trashing the pref files, etc.
Any ideas?
thanks,
Jeff

Answer 1

Look, like I said, I'm the ultimate apple fan, and I realize your most likely a paid apple troller who's income is based on toning down known apple software issues, and that is fine.
But you mentioned "There are millions of iPhoto users that are not having this problem". So is that 1 million, 10 million, 500 million(that's half a billion pal). So I think my very modest claim of many many thousands is quite modest to your mention of "millions" which could be anywhere from 1 million to almost 1 billion.
I've already reinstalled iPhoto from the disk it came on and done x, y and z. As much as I LOVE my Iphone, I've just noticed a serious lag in apples response to very very basic problems for the rest of the Mac platform, IE system performance, Ilife Apps not running properly, and on and on(many users that can't use Ichat, burn DVD's with IDVD, Imovie Issues and on and on). If tomorrow you purchased a 2008 Subaru Outback, and the horn, radio and transmission don't work, and Subaru tells you that "there are millions of other Subaru owners not having this problem" I don't think this is a valid response.
Like I said, I've been an avid mac user for 2 decades. I've for the first time noticed the apple fan base becoming disgruntled because of their basic Ilife Apps aren't functioning properly.
Here are some stats that I find completely unacceptable from apple whos says "they just work":
I have 4 macs: 1 G5 Dual 2 GHZ PowerPC G5, one powerbook G4, one Imac G5 Intel 24" and one Imac G5 Intel 20". I also own one Ipod shuffle, one Iphone, 2 appletv's and various other Ipod models.
Here is a breakdown of MY Apple computers, my girlfriends laptop, and 6 of my other friends various apple computers:
• My 4 Macs: 2 of the 4 can't burn DVD's in IDVD due to a "multiplexing Error"
• 1 of the 4's Iphoto can't publish any books
• 3 of the 4 macs Ichat hasnt worked since Ichat AV came out(they get this error: iChat.app" to accept incoming network connections
My friends Macs issues:
• One friend who I talked into purchasing the new Imac 24" intel machine, the first thing I wanted to show her was video chatting via Ichat with our friend from another state. This is from a BRAND NEW just unboxed machine from apple.com. We fired it up, started Ichat, then went to start a chat with our out of state friend. Guess what? for over an hour we kept getting "The user did not respond" error when if fact the user did not respond. The I went to show her how cool Itunes was and she wanted to burn a music CD to play in the car on the way to work the next day, but alas we got this error: Error 4280 when trying to burn a cd. I think that is unacceptable from a BRAND NEW MACHINE purchased from apple.com.
• 2 of my other friends macs that were purchased in December of 2007 for the sole purpose of web browsing, email and making DVD's with IDVD can no longer make DVD's due to the "multiplexing error" they get when they try it. Both have taken their Imacs to the Apple Store without any fixes.
I love my apple products as much as anyone, but with these types of problems happening on BRAND NEW MACHINES OUT OF THE BOX I can no longer recommend them to friends and family, if they are going to spend good money and have poor performance they might as well be running Vista....