IPhoto Preferences Hang After Move to External Drive

Hello all,
I bought a 2TB drive yesterday and moved my iphoto library to it. Now, when I attempt to open iPhoto preferences it hangs and I must use force quit to exit. All of my photos, albums, etc. are intact on both my iMac and external drive. I have Mac OS 10.5.8 and iPhoto 8.1. I deleted my com.apple.iphoto.plist and com.apple.iphoto as I had read this may help. It did not. Now what? Should I rebuild or reinstall?
*As a side note, I upgraded my iPhone 4 to IOS 6 and have recently synced it with my Mac. Not sure if one has anything to do with the other. Thank you in advance.
lisa

Since iPhoto worked OK in the other account then there's something in your account that's causing the problem. It could be a preference file other than iPhoto's. Here's how to determine if that's the case:
Trouble Shooting Preferences
NOTE: In Lion and Mountain Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
1 - close all applications.
2 - open your Home/Library folder and Option-drag (copy) the Preferences folder to the Desktop.
3 - select the contents of your Home/Library/Preferences folder and drag them into the Trash bin in the Dock. You will be asked to provide your Admin password.
4 - reboot.
5 - run the application again and determine if the problems is fixed
6 - If the problem is fixed:
A - open the working Home/Library/Preferences folder.
B - Open the Preferences folder on the Desktop, select all of the contents and drag them into the working Home/Library/Preferences folder.
C - When the Copy window pops up check the "Apply to All" check box and then click on the Don't Replace or Skip button.
D - reboot.
7 - If the problem is NOT fixed, drag the contents of the Preference folder on the Desktop into the Home/Library/Preference folder and replace the entire contents that were created by clicking on Replace.
8 - reboot.

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