Iphoto not loading photos

so i was in the midst of creating a photobook, when my computer froze. i had to restart it, which appeared to be fine. then later, while working on the photobook, i put it to sleep, and when i woke it, there was a message reading "your computer has crashed, please restart" or something like that.
my computer is fine, however, when i open iphoto, the application loads, but seems to be stuck on "loading photos". i can work all the commands in the menu, including quitting, etc. it just doesn't load the photos.
can someone tell me what is this alla bout, and give me pointers on how to fix this issue? i am using iphoto 5.0.4. do i need to update to iphoto 06?

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