MacBook, Snow Leopard & iPhoto'09

There have been several posts regarding Snow Leopard and graphics corruption, yet none seem to relate to the problems I'm having (or I haven't found one yet).
I have recently upgraded my mid-2007 MacBook (2.16GHz C2D, 4GB RAM) to Snow Leopard and updated to 10.6.4 (using the combo update) and also upgraded iLife to '09.
My problem occurs when using iPhoto'09 (8.1.2) to edit a photo. The display corrupts and the whole GUI locks up yet the machine is visible on the network with volumes and files accessible. The only way out of the graphics freeze is to power off. Following posts in the iPhoto forum, I have reinstalled iPhoto, repaired the library etc. etc.
Interestingly this also happens on my MacMini. Both these machines have the embedded Intel GMA950 graphics controller.
In an attempt to diagnose this, I installed SL & iLife on a USB HDD. Clean install from the retail disks, combo update for SL and Software Update for iLife. I get the same corruption when booting from this disk. Next up, I plugged this in to my daughter's MacBook (with an Intel GMS X3100 graphics controller) and it works fine.
So, I conclude that it's the GMA950 drivers that causes the issue.
Anyone got any thoughts, or a solution? (other than buying a new MacBook!)
Thanks
Steve

How are you transferring the photos? In the iphoto preferences is look up loations st to automatically?
LN

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