IPhoto Faces Preview Lost after Recovery...??!

Hi and tnxs for reading.
After an iPhoto Database Issue, I restored a Time Machine backup and everything is again up and running on my iPhoto 9.5.1 without any errors.
However, when checking Faces I had the bad surprise to notice that the 95% of them is black. It looks like all the references are there since I have the list of all faces and if I click each of them I have a correct number of related photos. However they are all black if I keep the selector "Faces-Photos" on the top right selected to faces. On the contrary, if I switch it to Photos I have the correct photos shown. If I go to Info of each photo I can see the correct tag to the correct face. However, if I go back to "Face", almost all the preview goes back black...
This is very strange to me... anything you suggest to do? I have not tried yet to avoid doing something wrong but I was thinking to cmd-option open iPhoto and select the rebuild of photo icons...
Tnxs

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