Iphoto not working with screen saver

Ever since I upgrade to 10.6.2, my screen saver will not allow me to use pictures in iphoto. When I click on a folder to use, it gives me a message "unable to use iphoto please contact vendor for screen saver upgrade" or very close to that. HUH? Isn't apple my vendor for both? Any ideas on how to go back to using my photos as my screen saver?

My guess is that ILMediaBrowser is referring to the iLife Media Browser. You might run Software Update and see if you somehow missed an update to it. However, if it worked with a new iPhoto Library I think the iLife Media Browser is probably OK, but there is something funky in the innards of your original iPhoto Library that is crashing the Media Browser.
You could try holding the Command and Option keys down, then launch iPhoto from the Applications folder. Keep holding the keys until it asks you if you want to rebuild. There are list of items to be checked, click on the ones that sound likely to help matters.
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