Preview clips blacked out in imovie/desktop prefs after 10.4 upgrade

I recently upgraded to tiger 10.4 and when i open sys prefs/desktop/iphoto folder all of my images come up black squares. The same thing happens when I open imovie and want to access photo clips. The file names appear but images are blacked out. Any idea how to fix this?

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