IPhoto Repair Hangs

I've rebuilt everything (thumnails/orphans, etc.) and run the repair routine only to have it hang at "100% Complete" for five hours. Everything appears to be functional in the program itself (I run the repair routine occasionally just to insure that anything that hasn't presented yet will be fixed as soon as possible). Anyway ... this is a first for me. Anything I need to worry about here?

1. If iPhoto Library Manager won't rebuild the Library and your back up is corrupted then you will have to create a new Library, recover your Photos from the damaged one and start over from scratch.
2. There's nothing unusual in your Library. In new iPhoto 11 Libraries there are no Originals / Modified folders, they are called Masters and Previews instead.
3. The fact that the xml file claims to be a Final Cut file simply means that your Mac thinks that FCE is the default app for opening xml. Again, it matters not a whit.
Regards
TD

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