Missing photos thumbnails...

I have a freind who is having this problem. In her iMovie when she clicks on her Photos tab a number of images do not show up. The Title is there, there is a space for them but no images. She clicks on the space and it doesn't show up in Ken Burns it doesn't give her the option to move the "blank" space to do anything with it,
Her library is about 10000 images and have I hit some limit that iMovie can't address?
This also happens in iDVD, and Motion as well.
her machine is a DP 2.0 G5 with 4.5 gigs of RAM
Mac OS 10.4.2
iMovie 5.0.2
iPhoto 5.0.4
thanks in advanced!

Hi froghead2,
The iPhoto library is probably corrupted. Try to rebuild it.
iPhoto 5: Fixing blank, gray thumbnails
iPhoto 4 or later: Rebuilding the iPhoto Library

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