Oh, c'mon! Why won't iPhoto 11 import my photos?

I'm running iPhoto 11 on a 2 year old Macbook Air on 10.7.4. I have several photo albums that I sync to my first generation iPad. I've created a new album of photos from the internet. I've added 93 photos to the album, but now when I try to add the last 65 or so photos (roughly 12 - 15MB total) I get an error message saying "INSUFFICIENT DISC SPACE: iPhoto cannot import your photos because there is not enough free space on the volume containing your iPhoto".
What gives?
- I have 22 GB of spare disk space on the computer
- my iPhoto library contains 2,762 photos, about 11GB of disk space
- there's another 1.5 GB of space on my iPad for sync'ing added photos
- I checked and Photostream isn't connecting to iCloud, and even if it were, I have 2.5GB of free space
What's going on? My iPhoto library appears to be in the default position, in the Pictures folder.
Anyone can shed any light, I'd be v. grateful.
THANKS!
J.

As a Test:
Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?

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