Latest RAW photo format update breaks iPhoto?

Hello,
I'm running the latest iPhoto (9.2.1) on Lion (10.7.2). I bought iPhoto the other day so that I could enable Photo Stream from my iPhone.
After it installed via the App Store, Apple Update said there was a RAW file format update. I didn't install it right away as I was importing the 6500+ files into iPhoto.
A majority of my files are in DNG format from when I imported the RAW files into Lightroom. But iPhoto didn't seem to have any issues with this and imported happily.
Once the import was done, I could see all the thumbs of my photos without issue and the larger versions of the photos.
I installed the RAW file update, and now things are broken. None of my thumbs show up. iPhoto knows the files are there as it has a record of something being there, but no display. When I double click on the thumb to see the full size, I get a ! for the bigger picture. Now here's the really odd thing... if I use the scroll wheel on my mouse and scroll super fast in the thumbs display, I can see thumbs scrolling by, i stop scrolling, they all disappear. I've attached a screen shot of what it looks like.
I'm utterly confused on this and not sure how to proceed. Is there a way to roll back the update? Or should I blow away the library and reimport?
Any ideas would be greatly appricated
Thanks

This has nothing to do with the Raw update. (And, by the way, all these do is add support for new cameras. If you're not shooting with one of these specified cameras there's no need to update.)
The ! turns up when iPhoto loses the connection between the thumbnail in the iPhoto Window and the file it represents.
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. .
Regards
TD

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