OS 10.6.8 and iPhoto 11

I have an iMac5,1 with the maximum of 3GB of memory installed. The OS was recently upgraded from 10.4.X to OS 10.6.8. I have iPhoto 6 and would like to upgrade to iPhoto 11 and the complete iLife 11 suite. I read a review from someone who had OS 10.6.8 and upgraded to iPhoto 11. They said that after upgrading to iPhoto 11 their iPhoto 11 ran unbearably slow. If you have experience with this, I would appreciate any suggestions or comments.
Thanks

Your welcome!
Also noting that even with pretty fair sized Libraries in both iPhoto and iTunes, it only takes a few seconds for iPhoto to initially open even with iTunes already open and running. 

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