Iphoto upgrade has ruined my book projects

i recently upgraded my iPhoto to version 9.4.2 and now all the books which i have had for a while have spread over hundreds of pages and lots most of the text?
Can anyone tell me how to revert to the finished book which i printed??
any advice is welcomed, as it took me months to create one of these books!
thanks.

OK, I doubt a change that isnt a major upgrade in the first number did this.
Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.
Reboot, any change?

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