IPhoto hangs on open, books does not save

I have a problem with opening my iPhoto 5.04, I can go in a roundabout way by clicking to create a book and then I get access to my library. If I only open iPhoto, it just hangs. Does anyone know why?
Another question: When I have created the book, in the middle of it all the program suddenly decides to close down, afterwards, my book is nowhere to be found. Does anyone know why?
Just a final question:
Those books I have created are nowhere to be found in my Finder even before they crash. Does anyone knows how iPhoto organises these things on the disk, is there anyway I can retrieve it?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks a million!

Hi Diarmuid,
I have a problem with opening my iPhoto 5.04, I can go in a roundabout way by clicking to create a book and then I get access to my library. If I only open iPhoto, it just hangs. Does anyone know why?
It seems as though there is something in your library giving iPhoto a problem. could be corrupt images. could be a data file. I don't think anyone would know for sure.
Another question: When I have created the book, in the middle of it all the program suddenly decides to close down, afterwards, my book is nowhere to be found. Does anyone know why?
All book information is stored in a dat file/files. If iPhoto quits when you are editing a book, the data does not get saved.
Just a final question:
Those books I have created are nowhere to be found in my Finder even before they crash. Does anyone knows how iPhoto organises these things on the disk, is there anyway I can retrieve it?
There is no way you can retrieve the information as it is in a data file. This has been frustrating to many people who have worked hours on a book only to have iPhoto crash during the process.
all this said, there is a problem with your library.
I can only suggest some steps to try and fix it.
First step would be to do a rebuild:
Try this:
Before doing a rebuild make sure iPhoto's trash bin is emptied. You can do this by control clicking on the trash bin, or from the menu bar under iPhoto.
Close iPhoto
Duplicate the iPhoto Library folder
Drag the duplicate to the desktop (hopefully you have enough room on your hard drive for the duplicate.)
Launch iPhoto holding down the Command and Option keys until you see the rebuild options screen.
Choose the first three options. If you were missing photos in your library, also choose the last option. Be advised that you will get a roll of orphaned photos and it might be quite huge. Most of them will already be in your iPhoto library, but use caution when deleting anything from this roll until you are sure the photos are still in your library in another place. It might be a good idea to share/export this roll of photos just in case you need to import them again.
Back to the rebuild, depending on the size of your library it might take some time. When it is done, hopefully your photos will be there.
You might see some unexpected results as I did when I did a rebuild. Photos had been moved to wrong dates, video clips had lost their duration info and some were even orphaned from the jpg pointer file. It took me some time to straighten it out again.
This is the reason to make a duplicate before you rebuild, in case you do not like the result. If you don't like the result, close iPhoto, then delete the rebuilt library and drag the duplicate back into the Pictures folder making sure the name is iPhoto Library. Launch iPhoto and it should open the library in the Pictures folder.
iPhoto 4 or later: Rebuilding the iPhoto Library
Get back with results and if there is any improvement. Good luck!
Lori

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