Iphoto places troubleshooting

My Places map no longer displays. Every photo I have selected contains the GPS Coordinates in the metadata AND displays when I click Option+Cmd+I (Show Extended Photo Info). I click on Places (the 4th item in the menu bar to the left, following Events, Photos, and Faces) and the content window to the right is empty. When I do click Option+Cmd+I, an empty map, with continent outlines, appears briefly and then disappears, leaving me with the empty grey box. I'm using iPhoto '09, which meets the minimum requirements. It was working a week ago. What happened? And more importantly, how do I fix it? Thank you.

First: my apologies, all references in the original post to Option+Cmd+I were wrong, they should read Cmd+I.
Secondly: I found a possible solution in an archived discussion at https://discussions.apple.com/message/9277201#9277201 -- see the post beginning with "Hurray" -- tried it and it didn't work. My iPhoto > Preferences > Advanced were already set to Automatic, so I changed it to Never, restarted iPhoto, changed it to Automatic, restarted iPhoto, and still nothing. Clicking on Places in the left menu bar, and clicking on Show in Places at the bottom of the window that appears when I press Cmd+I, still gives me an empty map window.

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