Iphoto face recognition confirmation not working

I have an interesting issue with iPhoto. I have about 20 Faces set up and when I open several, not all, it tells me that I have a certian number of "additional photo's" that the person may be in. When I confirm the additional faces the same number comes right back with the exact same faces each time. I can keep confirming them but they just continue to come back and need to be done again. Also, the number it is saying does not match the number of photo's I need to confirm.
I only have one iPhoto library. I have tried run  the detect missing faces routine but that did not fix the issue. I am not sure what to try next.
I have iPhoto '11 and up to date with all software updates.
Thanks...Lenny

Let's start with the crashing, as you need to fix that first.
Option 1
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.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. 
As for the Faces issue. I'm not sure what the precise issue is as you supply rather a lot of unnecessary comment, and so it's hard to figure out what the problem is. So fwiw, here's a couple of comments:
1. There's no dragging only naming. There's no Folder.
2. To reject mutiple suggestions: hold down the alt key and drag across the thumbnails.
Regards
TD 

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