Non-updating iPhoto Events

I upgraded to Leopard a few months ago, backing up my HD and doing a clean install. I'm not sure if this problem has been from the day I upgraded to iLife 08 or has occurred more recently, but now all my new iPhoto events are not showing up in iPhoto. There are some that do appear in Front Row, mostly my oldest events, and all the albums are there, as well as slideshows. The "last import" section shows my current last import, and in all photos all my current photos are there too. The only problem seems to be syncing the actual events. I've tried "rebuild the iPhoto library database", and it didn't seem to do anything in iPhoto or Front Row. Moving the library and making iPhoto find it again also didn't help, and manually reinstalling the Front Row 2.1.2 update did nothing either.
Any ideas on why this is happening, and how I can fix it? Thanks!

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
You might try deleting the Front Row cache. You can find the folder in this path:
<Macintosh HD>/Users/<YourUsersShortName>/Library/Caches/com.apple.frontrow/
Delete the com.apple.frontrow folder, log out and then log back in to see if it's helped.
-Doug

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If they thought it would corrupt your library then they'd hardly have released it now would they?
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Yes - two different ways to view your photos in the iPhoto library
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What changes have you made recently? for there to be a duplicate in iPhoto you would have had to import it - iPhoto does not duplicate photos
My spouse is saying we should download Picassa and go back to the that but I REALLY like iPhoto and want to keep it. I need to feel that my photo library is SAFE and seeing it in a window-tree (alla Picassa and windows) seems familiar, I know it's not inherently safer than iPhoto/iMac but this duplicating event is unsettling.
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I'm re-posting the answer to this problem so I can show it has been answered:
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I accidentally updated iPhoto on my (now) external hard drive and now it won't let me access any of my photos. What can I do?

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