IPhoto images reverting spontaneously (edits lost)

I'm not sure if I'm following protocol here. I started a discussion about "iPhoto Library Locked" and in attempting to solve the problem realized I have a different problem. I'm going to go ahead and post under the new heading in the hopes that it will catch the eye of someone who has solved the same problem.
In my library, my photos have started to spontaneouly revert to the original image, wiping out all of my changes. It happens when I double click to enlarge the image; I can watch the crops and edits simply melt away. If I have opened the edit window and am displaying the adjustment pane, it initally shows all the adjustments that were made and then, as it reverls, all of the sliders go back to neutral.
I have option-double-clicked when opening the file to do rebuilds on the permissions, thumbnails and the library DB, and then I've rebuilt the library DB. I tried doing a rebuild using iPhoto Library Manager (IPLM). It appeared to work correctly up to rebuilding thumbnails pretty much at the end of the process; several times during this process iPhoto quit unexpectedly - IPLM simply restarted until at one point IPLM said it was unable to communicate with iPhoto and the whole process just hung up. I had to force quit IPLM. The IPLM rebuilt library was about 27 GB whereas the original is about 30 GB.
My computer (a Mac Book Pro) is running OS 10.8.2 and the iPhoto version is 9.4.2.
Any suggestions as to what to try next?

Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there.
Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A Finder window will open with the Library exposed.
Look there for the iPod Photo Cache. Trash it. Start iPhoto and try sync again.
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TD

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