Iphoto will not Quit

After dumping out a couple of hundred photos from my library iPhoto would not quit, I forced quit and now I have a couple of hundred "ghost" photos, the photo meta information without the photo. If I try to delete the "ghost" photos and empty iPhoto trash, iPhoto will not quit again. Any solutions? I tried opening the content of the iPhoto file but there is no way I can figure out what meta data to delete that way.

I had same issue a week or so ago with iPhoto 09 hanging during an upload of new images. While naming a new event, the app froze. After a force-quit, I relaunched iPhoto with same resulting crash.
Disk Utilities permissions repair did nothing to re-establish iLibrary functionality. On rebooting the iMac, after a looonnnggg wait watching the spinning gear(?), a greyed out 'Quit' symbol (circle with diagonal bar thru it) appeared and the OS (10.6.1) never launched. Several reboots had same effect. No OS launch. I booted from the original SL install disk, which ran OK, and launched Disc Utility, repair disk. It could not be repaired! A hardware diagnostic check resulted in OK for the drive.
After spending the better part of a day with Apple Tech Support, upgrading from one expert to another (4), the problem issue remained unresolved.
Two weeks prior to that I had one of my 2 external HDDs crash, and could not access some of my most recent iPhoto Events. Had to replace the HDD and have not been able to recover any data from the failed drive.
Finally resorted to a fresh install of the OSX10.6.1 (auto data archive) and restored iMac operationally intact with no data loss. Immediately did a TM backup and then reinstalled all the current updates again with another backup.
iPhoto 09 is back running again, but I still find that it is very quirky with unexpected outcomes.
Can't really trust that it won't blow up again.
Bottom line - multiple backups on variety of media for important data and photos!

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