Plist has to be trashed at every launch of iPhoto

Good morning. I've cross posted this query to the iPhoto discussion.
We are having a problem with iPhoto which started after we upgraded our server O.S. from 10.4.8 to 10.4.9.
Each time our students launch iPhoto their library fails to load until their plist is trashed. At the next launch iPhoto loads the user's photos correctly. At the end of a session they quit iPhoto and, at the next launch, the problem occurs again.
This problem seems restricted to students using iPhoto for the first time. In many cases the images they are using came from Photo Booth, but by no means all of them. Users with iPhoto libraries created prior to the server O.S. upgrade appear to work normally.
Our server is a G4 xServe. Workstations are G4 eMacs and Intel iMacs, running 10.4.9. iPhoto is V. 6.0.6.
We would welcome any suggestions please.
Brian Bowell
ICT Support
Berkley School.

Brian:
Is the server turned off at night and are the students leaving iPhoto open at night?
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