Iphoto freezes on certian pictures

When viewing pictures in the same window as when organizing but using the edit funtion and pressing the arrow keys to go back and forth between photos Iphoto seems to freeze or stall on certian photos regularly. When it does so I can't go to see another pic or go back. There also are like white borders on the inside right and bottom where the picture should be however the picture is now gone and all i have is gray with the two white borders. I can go back to the organize window but then when i see the thumbnails I can't click to enlarge any of them and I have to shut down iphoto. thanks for any help or advice.

Ehrin,
Quit iPhoto and drag the unnecessary iPhoto Library folders to the trash -- they're just taking up disk space. The current one should be the one that has the highest number tacked on the end of the folder's name (unless you have dragged the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file to the trash since the last rebuild attempt). Don't empty the trash right away, in case you want (need) to drag one or more back. If iPhoto starts off by asking for help finding the iPhoto Library, then one of the folders you dragged to the trash was the active iPhoto Library.
With respect to the "problem" images, can you drag them to iPhoto's trash to get rid of them? (If those images are important, drag them from the iPhoto window to a folder on the desktop before you delete them from iPhoto.)

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