Issues Using iPhoto among users on Shared profile

Hi there,
I am having issues viewing my photos from multiple user profiles. I have the library saved on a shared profile, and I (admin) can see all photos fine, however my wife can see events and thumbnails, but cannot view the photos individually - she gets just black space where the photo would be. Has anyone else encountered this? Any ideas?

I'm not sure what this means:
I have the library saved on a shared profile,
Are yu sharing the Library via iPhoto Preferences? Or Sharing by both users pointing at one Library?
For iPhoto 09 (version 8.0.2) and later:
What you mean by 'share'.
If you want the other user to be able to see the pics, but not add to, change or alter your library, then enable Sharing in your iPhoto (Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and use Fast User Switching to open the other account. In that account, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. Your Library will appear in the other source pane.
Any user can drag a pic from the Shared Library to their own in the iPhoto Window.
Remember iPhoto must be running in both accounts for this to work.
If you want the other user to have the same access to the library as you: to be able to add, edit, organise, keyword etc.
Quit iPhoto in both accounts. Move the Library to the Users / Shared Folder
(You can also use an external HD set to ignore permissions, a Disk Image or even partition your Hard Disk.)
In each account in turn: Double click on the Library to open it. (You may be asked to repair the Library Permissions.) From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both accounts will have full access to the library, in fact, both accounts will 'own' it.
However, there is a catch with this system and it is a significant one. iPhoto is not a multi-user app., it does not have the code to negotiate two users simultaneously writing to the database, and trying will cause db corruption. So only one user at a time, and back up, back up back up.
Regards
TD

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Title says it all.
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My wife and I share the same camera too. We want to see the same pictures when using iPhoto.
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If you want to have the same data, do you need separate accounts? A surprising number of people think that must have separate ccounts and they really don't need to.
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