Open iPhoto, White Screen, no icons on left or bottom.

I just installed iLife09 from a company disk yesterday and have NEVER had so many problems with iPhoto - every other program appears to be working fine. I finally emptied the old trash - got it to start recognizing faces (my Library is 20gb) but when that was finished, no photos popped up under Library - only under Events, and then you couldn't click them. Here's what I've done to try and remedy the problem:
ReInstall 10.5.6 combo
Option+Cmd iPhoto to rebuild everything
Delete face.db files, etc.
Restart computer several times.
What is the deal?? I just want to view my photos - if I would have known this was going to happen, I would have kept the old iPhoto!!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Terence, first off, thank you for making time to help me with my issue. Last night I completely trashed iPhoto and every pref assoc with it and reinstalled ilife. Restarted, and get the same problem. I repaired disk permissions also.
When I open iPhoto it's just a shell of an app, no icons. I have to click on the add album icon to get the left row of icons to appear. I then imported a single jpeg - it recognized it and stalled on finishing importing. I have 8.02 iPhoto. I'm pretty computer savvy (not on the backend) but can usually figure something out. This is very tough...don't know what the deal is! Thanks so much for your help.
Chad
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