Really weird Thumbnail issue

OK...so i upgraded to iLife 08 on my iBook and everything was working great on iPhoto for about an hour and then wham...all my thumbnails disappear.
I have restarted iPhoto and held down shift-cmn-option and asked it to rebuild thumbnail cache...which it does and still no thumbnails.
It recognises the albums and event etc...just cant see any pics. I know the pic library is still there as all 8GB is present. BUT when I try to view them the iPhoto library is now just an iPhoto library and when I click it...it just opens iPhoto. I have re-installed software, restarted...everything. Nothing works. Any thoughts?

Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

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