IPhoto doesn't show thumbnails anymore

I actually figured this out- I am posting this as a solution, not a problem. It frustrated me but I figured it out.
THE PROBLEM:
You click on an "event" and it brings up a picture from that event, however you can only see one picture. Clicking left-right on either the buttons or the keyboard move you to different events, not to different pictures. You have tried to go to "View -> Thumbnails -> Show" but it's all gray, meaning theoretically you ARE in thumbnail view, even though you can only see the one picture.
THE REASON & SOLUTION:
The possible reason you are having this problem is the magnification slider in iPhoto on the bottom right. While in thumbnail view, apparently, you can zoom all your thumbnails in to a point where it's only showing one picture- but you cannot browse the rest of the album or event this way. If you are having the problem above, then your magnification slider should be all the way to the right. Move it to the left, and other thumbnails should start to appear. Eventually you see all your thumbnails again. You can still scroll through all the photos using the full-screen thumbnail view by clicking/scrolling up and down, not left to right. There should be a scroll bar visible on the right. Its not obvious like on these discussion boards, but its there.
Hope that helps. I would like to have Apple change this behavior- it will deffinetly frustrate a lot of people.

this is a known bug (or maybe a "feature" - who knows)
Please provide feedback to Apple re this to be sure they understand users view of it - iphoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback
LN

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