IPhoto hanging up with beach ball.

I suspect my problem may be more with the Mac Mini than iPhoto, so I'm posting my question to this forum (as well as the iPhoto forum).
Running Snow Leopard on my aged Mac Mini, iPhoto has begun to hang up for 20-30 minutes with a spinning beach ball whenever I attempt to navigate around my library (by clicking Photos from Events, or vice versa, or attenpting to open an event) - really, anything.
I have used the Option/Command combo to "rebuild the library from automated backups" as one user suggested. I have also used a 3rd party software to rebuild the library.
I have used the option key on startup to build a new library. After adding a few pictures the problem begins again.
I deleted iPhoto and bought a new copy, but no help.
I have repaired permissions and verfied the disk with Disk Utility.
I have eliminated all the accounts to which iPhoto was subscribed (as suggested in a MacWorld hint).
Any further ideas? Thanks

I've got the same issue.
I've tried rebuilding the database within iPhoto to no avail.
using iPhoto Library Manager, it starts creating the rebuilts library then fails with...
Apple event timed out ('core'/'getd' (returnID 1) { ---- = object specifier: {objectClass = 'ikwd'; keyForm = 'indx'; keyData = 'abso'(36206C6C6136); container = (null)}; rtyp = 'obj '})
Anyone any other ideas?
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