IPhoto does not display png thumbnails correctly

I would love to use iPhoto to organize my scrapbooking graphics. Unfortunately, a great many are in png format with transparency. When imported, the transparent portions of the images are displayed in black. Many files are word art, which is generally rasterized text on a transparent background. The files will show at full size and will open correctly. That doesn't help if I want to look at a thumbnail gallery to scan for a particular file. (BTW, word art files need to have transparent backgrounds so converting to jpg doesn't help.)
This was an issue in 2006 with iPhoto 5 (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2755904&#2755904). I was hoping for a fix but apparently iPhoto is not destined to handle png thumbnails correctly.

That's normal for transparency files, png or gif, and iPhoto. It renders the transparency black. It's the nature of the beast. You can send a feature request to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html. Some other applications have options to set the transparency color to the user's needs.

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