IPhoto takes FOREVER to open/close and slooooows system down

PLEASE HELP ME! I love my Mac, and used to love iPhoto - but now it takes several MINUTES (over 5 at times) to open, slows my whole system down to pre-286, and can take over 10 minutes to close freezing the system. My only 'get around' has been to delete the /user/library/preferences/com.apple.iPhoto.plist EVERY SINGLE TIME i open iPhoto and to FORCE QUIT every time i quit. I use photos EVERY DAY and NEED iPhoto to work again.
WHAT DO I DO??? Can i Download and reinstall?
I've read other posts on the topic and don't find any help.
I have 1GB of memory, and I do have near 15,000 images, but that shouldn't be the problem. I need to be able to keep adding more images.
Is there another program for Mac for archiving photos so you can browse, and I'll just use iPhoto for current projects, but that would STICK...
Please help me, I NEED iPhoto to work smoothly again, it is too much what i need every day, and was the #1 reason I switched to Mac a year ago, and now it is ruining my day every day. HELP!

Eddie:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. iPhoto has been advertiesd with up to 25,000 photos. Yes you can have multiple libraries. iPhoto Buddy and iPhoto Library Manager are applications that let the user move between multiple libraries with relative ease and speed. iPhoto Library Manager (the paid version) also has the capability of moving photos between libraries while maintaining keywords, album and roll information.
How much free space do you have on your HD?
First try running Disk Utility and repair disk permissions. Then, if necessary, make a duplicate of your current iPhoto Library folder (select it and type Command-D) and launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. Select the first three options. If the rebuild goes as intended you can trash the duplicate.
Once you get the library back up and running satisfactorily you can subdivide it into sub libraries by making a duplicate of the good library and then open it with iPhoto. Now delete all the photos except those you want in that library. Now make another duplicate and repeat the previous steps. Repeat until you have the sub-libraries that you want and then you can delete the full one.
OT

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