Mass Deletion of Photos Causes iPhoto '09 to Crash

I have about 75,000 pictures. Yeah, waiting on Faces was fun...
Anyway, I decided to break up my library into two libraries.
When I try to delete about 35,000 photos out of the duplicated library, iPhoto works REALLY hard for about an hour, then the processors (iStat menu) just show idle activity. iPhoto stays exactly as it was, but is neither using the processors or HD.
I force quit and then reopen it. The photos are still in the Trash. Nothing seems to have been done.
I've rebuilt everything on iPhoto startup (except the nice 'From Backup' option).
I've been dwindling it down to see what amount of photos doesn't cause iPhoto to anuerize (yes, I made it verb). So far, deleting 5,544 will still cause the freeze.
Any suggestions other than deleting 100 at a time or keeping it all in one library? It should have taken 15 minutes at the most to get both libraries up and running, not a day-and-counting!
Anyway, thanks in advance.

Note that I said "when IPLM is updated to '09"
it currently has some functionality with '09 but can not move photos - from the IPLM update page
iPhoto ‘09 initial compatibility report
Posted on January 27, 2009 by Brian Webster
Well, I’ve had a chance to try out iPhoto ‘09 for a couple hours now, and here are the notes I have so far regarding compatibility with iPhoto Library Manager:
Viewing and switching between existing libraries works fine. iPhoto will prompt you to upgrade your library to the new version when you first open a particular library. Note that after you upgrade a library, you will no longer be able to open it in earlier versions of iPhoto.
New libraries created using the current version of iPhoto Library Manager won’t work the first time you open them in iPhoto. For now, hold down the option key while opening iPhoto and use its interface to create a new library if you need to create one. You can then use the “Add Library” button in iPhoto Library Manager to add the library to iPLM’s library list, after which you can use the library normally. This will be fixed in the upcoming iPLM update.
As expected, advanced functions such as copying albums between libraries and merging do not work and will produce an error message. Rebuilding a library will also not work, although the “Extract Photos” function should still work OK. Trying to use these features won’t result in any harm, they just won’t work. Again, these issues will be fixed in the upcoming iPLM update.
iPod Folders appear to work with no problems with iPhoto ‘09
So, that’s what I have for now, I’ll be continuing to test things out and will post any updates on this page. I’ll then be starting work on updating iPLM to fix any of the issues that come up with iPhoto ‘09. That will be a free update for all users, so if you have purchased or plan on purchasing a copy of iPLM, you will be able to update for free when it is available.
LN
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