IPhoto library won't sync with iTunes

I recently bought an Apple TV and when I went to sync my iPhoto pictures (via the Photos tab in iTunes) no albums appeared in the box beneath. When I tried to sync anyway, the following message apeared: "iTunes cannot sync photos to Apple TV because your iPhoto library could not be found. Open iPhoto to create or update your iPhoto library." Further research showed the same problem with syncing iPhoto to my iPod. Again, iTunes was not "seeing" my iPhoto library for this device either.
I have read numerous posts about this issue and they all point to problems in the existing iPhoto library, however this is not true in my case for two reasons: 1) Creating a brand new iPhoto library from scratch (as was suggested in some posts) does nothing to solve the problem. That new library can't be "seen" by iTunes either. 2) When I transferred my existing iPhoto library to another computer, that new computer's itunes had no trouble "seeing" it. I can therefor only assume it has something to do with the iPhoto program itself, though reinstalling iLife didn't solve the problem.
Any help would be much apprectiated. Oh and Im using an iMac G5 Power PC with iLife 6 and all software is up to date.

It still sounds like a problem in the albumdata.xml file. Dave E described what that file should look like and how to read it to identify a bad iPhoto keyword. Read his instructions in this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3870956&#3870956
If you do find a bad keyword by reading the XML file, you have to go into iPhoto's preferences to correct the keyword list. You can either edit or delete the one causing the problem. One user had an empty keyword that caused this problem, and the only way to find it was through the XML file. Once it was deleted, iPhoto was accessible from the other applications.

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