Iphoto slideshow slide duration option frozen

Tried to get slideshow automatically show all the slides. I can click the slides
to get thru them, but won't go thru them automatically.
Also, the drop down box slides for" _ seconds"... I can't change the time per slide. It is frozen at 3 any suggestions on how to change??
Using Iphoto 6

I'm glad that after 3 days of looking around these forums, I finally found someone with my problem. I did what you suggested and still had the following problems. First, if I try to preview the slide show, It does one transition and returns to the first slide. Second, if I click the play button, my Cinema display powers down(the light goes off), but the music runs anyway. I suspect that the slide show might be running (at least the music is), but I can't see it cause my monitor's off. I just upgraded to OSX 10.4.8 and added the newest ilfe package from the apple store, and installed 6.0.4 and 6.0.5 updates. I don't have a clue how to fix this. Can you help?

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