No permission to view video in shared iPhoto library

Hello. First time posting on the apple forum. I have set up our macbook pro such that from both of our accounts we share the same iPhoto library in a public/shared folder. We are using iPhoto '09. We are not having any problems sharing the photos. However, when we download our iPhone4 videos to iPhoto, we cannot view each other's videos. We keep getting the error "You do not have permission to view this video". I found the actual video files and made sure the permissions are set to everyone "read and write" yet it still doesn't allow us to see each other's videos in quicktime. Can anybody help me?
Thanks.

TD
Thanks for your help. I rebuilt the iPhoto library's permissions which allowed my wife to view my videos from her user account. I still could not view hers until through her user account I rebuilt the iPhoto library's permissions again. This then let me view her videos and she could still view mine. So that was very helpful. However, any new videos that I add still run into the same problem. Videos I upload from my phone cannot be viewed from her user account. Please advise
I have the iPhoto library under my user account, in the dropbox of the public folder. Permissions on the Public folder and the Dropbox folder and the iPhoto library all say me, my wife and everybody is read and write permissions. iPhoto in both my and my wife's user accounts point to the same iPhoto library. Do I need to move the library to the "Shared" user account? Are their permissions that need to be changed on my iPhone or through iTunes?
Really appreciate your help.
Thanks
HKC

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