IPhoto MobileMe Gallery and Passwords !@#

Appears to be an issue with posted iPhoto Galleries with personalized passwords. I have noticed that iPhoto does not consistently publish iPhoto Galleries with functioning passwords (or more accurately, MobileMe does not push down passwords evenly to all of its load balanced servers).
Some individual photos will come through following username/password authentication, while others will fail username/password authentication and come up with broken images. I have an iPhoto album on MobileMe that refuses to be viewed entirely by the published username/password pair.
To make matters worse, if a user fails authentication, they are prompted to re-enter again, and again and again ...
Latest patches on OS, and Apps - seems like we need one more.
Golan.

Golan:
Have you tried the first line, general all purpose fixes: 1 - close iPhoto, delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your User/Library/Preferences folder, launch iPhoto and see if that helps; 2 - repair disk permissions with Disk Utility.
After that you can try rebuilding the library as follows: launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. Select the first three options. Make a backup copy of the library beforehand as a precaution against a repair going bad.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
Note: There's now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

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I found another solution based on this posting.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=689762
Works perfectly.
+I have the same problem and started a thread about it on Apple's discussion board, see http://discussions.apple.com/thread....art=0&tstart=0+
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