Iphoto freezes...cannot access at all

In recent days, I have had a problem with opening iphoto, both by clicking the icon to open it and when syncing my iphone to import photos taken. As soon as I would do either, the iphoto window pops up and the cursor turns into the beach ball, and it just hangs up. I looked for system updates and loaded them, thinking that may help, but to no avail. Wanting to upgrade my iphoto to the iphoto '11 version, I thought maybe doing this might fix something, but it didn't.
It installed easily enough, but when I try to access iphoto, the screen pops up with a message saying it needs to upgrade or quit the program. I click upgrade and another window pops up saying "upgrading iphoto database" with a twisting bar along the bottom, like its loading something. Then it just hangs there. The pop up said it may take as long as an hour, so I left it alone. After four whole hours, the screen hadn't changed, but the cursor had now turned to a beach ball. I right clicked on the iphoto icon in the dock and it showed "application not responding". At this point, I have no choice but to force quit.
I don't know what I need to do to fix this. I run a part-time ebay business and I NEED iphoto to upload my pics. I can't work without it. At least, I don't think I can...
Does anyone have any suggestions of how to fix this?? I am currently on a new macbook, purchased in Dec 2010. I don't know how to look up my other specs (graphics card, etc).
Please help!!

Found spec info...if this helps:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MB71.0039.B0B
SMC Version (system): 1.60f5
NVIDIA GeForce 320M:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 320M
Type: GPU
Bus: PCI
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x08a0
Revision ID: 0x00a2
ROM Revision: 3533
Displays:
Color LCD:
Resolution: 1280 x 800
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Built-In: Yes
Display Connector:
Status: No Display Connected
Message was edited by: lmj29

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