Is iPhoto '11 safe to install yet?

It been a couple months since the release. Ive heard and read many horror stories about losing photos, computers slowing down, and computers and iphoto crashing.
Is it safe yet to install iPhoto '11? Have there been any solutions? Have any problems been diagnosed to an actual cause?
Thanks in advance!!!

After spending a ton of time reading up about it, I decided to load iLife 11 today.
1. I did a back up (I use time machine/time capsule)
2. I installed it.
3. Immediately loaded the software update after install. Didn't open any programs first.
4. Opened iPhoto 11, crossed my fingers, said it was ok to upgrade my library.
All the photos were there. But I noticed they looked blurry. Did some research online and others had this issue. It seemed to be getting resolved by doing a force quit. So I did the force quit. When I opened it again, they were all clear.
I tested the Facebook upload. That seemed slow. Forced quit iPhoto again and then launched it again, tried Facebook upload again and it was very quick.
Tested an upload to Flickr next and that seemed to work fine.
Tested mailing photos from with iPhoto with both my mobile me and gmail account, and it worked fine as well - seemed pretty quick process to me.
It all seems to be working fine now for me after the software update and two forced quits.

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