IPhoto Hangs in the Background

If I'm using iPhoto and I switch over to another app (Safari or something) for any length of time longer than a minute or so, iPhoto hangs and I have to force quit, because I just get a beach ball. This happens all the time (I've been using iPhoto for an hour and it's happened about six times), making it hard for me to use iPhoto at all. I've tried trashing the pref file, but that doesn't help. I'm not running that many programs right now, and I've got 4187 photos. I'm not sure, but I think it only happens when I'm in edit mode.
20" iMac G5 2GHz/15" PowerBook G4 1GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3) 2GB RAM on both

Michael:
Try manually setting the preferences for the iPhoto Library folder and its contents as follows:
Setting Permissions for iPhoto Library Folder
1 - Select the iPhoto Library folder and type Command-I.
2 - When the Info window comes up go to the Ownership and Permissions section and make sure You have Read & Write permission and that the Owner and Group have Read & Write also. Others - Read Only.
3 - Then click on the "Apply to enclosed items..." button.
Also it wouldn't hurt to clear out the user caches with OnyX.

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