Jpeg photos are "unrecognized or corrupted"

I'm having troubles loading all my pictures into iPhoto again. I've been using iPhoto for a couple years already and never had problems...recently my account appeared to be corrupted, so I created a new one instead. I made the new account the "administrator" and transferred all my stuff from the original account to this new one.
Now, I'm trying to recreate my photo library and I get that message "file is not recongized or corrupt", but its a jpeg file, and I've had these pictures on iPhoto before. I can view these pictures just fine on Preview, but I can't on iPhoto. The other weird thing is that it wont let me open/view the "pictures folder" through Finder because I dont have "sufficient privileges" even though I'm the administrator!
UGH!!! I don't know what to do...Please help!
eMac   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

You need to tell us what the exact problem is with iPhoto in your original account. You either have a corrupt database - iPhoto Library Folder or you have run out of free space on your hard drive so iPhoto can't perform.
Whatever, creating a new account is not going to solve your problem.
The default permissions for the Pictures Folder denies access to everyone but the owner - account holder.
You will get that unrecognized warning if you try to import a photo from an iphoto library folder to another iPhoto library folder - can't do it.
Forget the new account. Login into your regular account and rebuild the iphoto Library.
iPhoto 4 or later: Rebuilding the iPhoto Library
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107947

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