Lion iPhotos are black - thumbnails are fine

Hi
I bought a MacBook Pro two days ago. I transferred material from my MacBook running Snow Leopard. Then I installed Lion on the new MB Pro.
When I started up iPhoto the first time, Lion ran a translator program so the pics I'd transferred over via Migration Assistant would work with Lion. Now, the thumbnails are fine but most of the pictures are all black -- or blank -- when you click the thumbnails.
Any help on this would be appreciated.

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