Lost iPhoto access to photos after Leopard upgrade

After upgrading to Leopard, I had access to iPhoto 6.06 as before. But, then I had to do the workaround to re-establish my user account as Administrator, so as to install the Software Updates that showed up over the weekend.
That worked, but now iPhoto opens and just spins its circle as it tries to access the iPhoto Library. I've tried every solution posed on the boards, and none worked.
The images do open in Preview when accessed from Finder. When I try to add a web image to iPhoto, I now get a message that Safari cannot communicate with iPhoto.
Solutions tried: made sure all user accounts had read/write rights to the folders; ditto iPhoto.app; repaired permissions; even opened Garage Band and saved a file as 'Test' (opening and saving a file worked for a couple of posters); downloaded the iPhoto rebuild utility, but it couldn't access the iPhoto app; could not get iPhoto to offer to rebuild the library with Option/Command startup.
If I upgrade to iLife '08, will this problem go away? Or, has Leopard done something irreparable beyond the application itself? Has anyone heard if Apple is working on a patch for this? Mine is not the only computer affected: there are several others complaining on this and in the Leopard Topics area.
Model and OS below and current.
Thanks for any help.

Bruce
Upgrading to v7 won't solve the issue. The problem doesn't sound like it's with the application but rather with the Library.
Download BatchMod from
http://macchampion.com/arbysoft/
And apply it to the iPhoto Library Folder using the settings found here:
http://homepage.mac.com/toad.hall/.Pictures/Forum/BatChmod.png
(Credit to Old Toad for this one).
If that fails, Create a new account (systempreferences -> accounts) and see if the problem is repeated there. If it is, then a re-install of the app might be indicated. If it's not, then it's likely the app is okay and the problem is something in the main account.
Regards
TD

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