IPhoto won't launch for a user

iPhoto (9.4.3) won't launch for one of the users on our iMac running OS X Lion 10.7.5
We have two user accounts both with Admin previleges. For one of the accounts, iPhoto works fine. For the other account, it just won't launch iphoto and we don't get any error message when launching it from the dock. However, when launching iPhoto from a terminal window (/Applications/iPhoto.app/Content/MacOS/iphoto) the error is:
illegal instruction: 4.
I've trashed the iphoto preference file...no joy. I've also tried launching iPhoto while holding down the option key...also no joy.
Any suggestions?

I have removed everything from my user library and reinstalled InDesign. Now InDesign begins to launch, but then crashes when it gets to the 'Starting up Service Registry' line on the application screen. Any thoughts? My call to apple has yielded a 'we've done everything we can do' response.

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Well without no information to work with, try reinstall.
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2a: On 10.5: Go to HD/Library/Receipts and remove any pkg file there with iPhoto in the name.
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/var/db/receipts/
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/private/var/db/receipts
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Process:         iTunes [782]
Path:            /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
Identifier:      com.apple.iTunes
Version:         10.6.1 (10.6.1)
Build Info:      iTunes-10610701~1
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [353]
Date/Time:       2012-05-19 13:42:57.849 -0700
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E53)
Report Version: 9
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000d, 0x0000000000000000
VM Regions Near 0:
-->
    __TEXT                 000000010d5c2000-000000010e762000 [ 17.6M] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
Application Specific Information:
objc_msgSend() selector name: respondsToSelector:
objc[782]: garbage collection is OFF
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x00007fff8302e150 objc_msgSend_vtable5 + 16
1   com.apple.Foundation                    0x00007fff8d529382 _NSDescriptionWithLocaleFunc + 50
2   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff8dca0e75 __CFStringAppendFormatCore + 11365
3   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff8dcf368b _CFStringCreateWithFormatAndArgumentsAux + 107
4   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff8dd6be52 _CFLogvEx + 114
5   com.apple.Foundation                    0x00007fff8d5a3a9f NSLogv + 89
6   com.apple.Foundation                    0x00007fff8d5a3a3d NSLog + 130
7   com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff8cb7d3a3 -[NSApplication reportException:] + 56
8   com.apple.iTunes                        0x000000010d5ca5c9 0x10d5c2000 + 34249
9   com.apple.Foundation                    0x00007fff8d535d0e __-[NSNotificationCenter addObserver:selector:name:object:]_block_invoke_1 + 47
10 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff8dce67ba _CFXNotificationPost + 2634
11 com.apple.Foundation                    0x00007fff8d521fc3 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 65
12 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff8c8c9366 -[NSApplication finishLaunching] + 333
13 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00007fff8c8c8f18 -[NSApplication run] + 125
14 com.apple.iTunes                        0x000000010d5c5c38 0x10d5c2000 + 15416
15 com.apple.iTunes                        0x000000010d5c5a78 0x10d5c2000 + 14968

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