Problem using 2 separate computers with iPhoto

My friend and I have both upgraded to iPhoto 6. We have a problem when she brings a CD of her images to my house. When I load them to my computer I can view them regularly in iPhoto 6. However, when we try to view a slideshow and it gets to her photos, and her photos only, there is a gray screen with a light gray dashed square outline representing the image and it has an exclamation point or question mark in the middle (can't remember which). Also, when I try to export her images to my desktop it will not work.
Has anyone had this problem? I've already rebuilt my thumbnails which didn't help.

Deborah:
The gray screen and exclamation point indicates that iPhoto cannot find the image file that should be displayed. How is your friend burning the disk? It should be via the Share->Burn menu. Then the disk will mount in your iPhoto like this. You can select an album that she created and burned and run a slideshow off of it.
Her disk should look like this with the full sized image files in the Originals folder. You can check to see if they are there.
If the disk was created by exporting the files via the File->Export->File Export menu option then they would have to be imported into your iPhoto library for you to view them in iPhoto or use in a slideshow.
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