Photo sharing with iLife apps

Hi all,
I'm a fairly new mac user (macs are awesome by the way!) having a few problems with iPhoto 6.
When I import photos (originally batch named and keyworded on a PC version of Picasa) something happens to the photo library that makes it unviewable by all the other iLife apps...
I read somewhere that an '&' sign in a file name could cause problems, so I used automator to rename all the files taking out any non alpha-numeric characters. But those same files still caused the same problem (I've built and deleted about 20 libraries in iphoto in the last fortnight trying to isolate the problem).
Basically what happens is: import a few photos, the library can be seen in other apps but then import certain folders of photos and the library disappears in those apps (imovie, i web etc)!
The only other thing I can think of is that the keyword's are problematic somehow? But iPhoto doesn't allow a user to permanently remove keywords...
Any suggestions?

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
The problem is in the albumdata.xml file. This is usually caused by a bad keyword in your iPhoto library. Non-ascii characters, returns, and spaces can trigger the problem. One user had a blank keyword that wasn't visible in the list; once she deleted it the problem was resolved.
To help pinpoint the bad keyword, you can look at the xml file. Compare it to Dave E.'s description in this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3870956?. If you see a similar error, go back to your keywords list in iPhoto and either delete or rename the offending keyword.
You change the keywords in iPhoto's Preferences. There you can rename, add, delete , or reorder the keywords on your list.

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