IPhoto hangs on initial startup

Purchased a new iMac Dual core and when I start iPhoto the hard drive starts what appears to be a search and continues polling. the Mac then gets slower and slower to respond to my commands and eventually ceases to respond. I understand that iPhoto will look at my hard drive (all of the 160Gb) and import any images it finds, but I did not anticipate this to imapct the machine so much or take so long. After over 20 minutes, I cancelled the application. Has anyone encountered a similar problem on initial program start, if so, how did you overcome it?
iMac Dual Core Mac OS X (10.4.6) White

tricky64:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. iPhoto does not search the HD for images to use. You have to direct it to import new photos into the library.
I take it you've not used the library before this and am just trying to get it launched the first time, right?
If you've have not photos in the library (open the iPhoto Library folder and check inside the Originals folder for subfolders with image files in them. If there are none, delete the iPhoto Library folder and the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, from your User/Library/Preferences folder.
Now run Disk Utility and repair disk permissions. Now try launching iPhoto and create a new library. See if it will open then and present you with an empty library window.

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