Rebuilding and backup recovery fails

Hi
I have a MacBook with iPhoto 9.1.5 running on OS 10.6.8.
Just recently all pictures were gone from the iPhoto application, leaving empty events, album and so forth (not displaying any thumbs and showing "0 Pictures"). Apparently, the last action was to delete the trash which possibly contained a couple of 1000 pictures.
I tried rebuilding (via the cmd & alt keys at startup) which failed (remained at 97% completion for 12 hours). Next I restored a backup from a date when the iPhoto library was certainly ok. When opening it, iPhoto could not proceed and wanted to create a new library by means of rebuilding from the old one - which would have been fine with me. Unfortunately it wasn't fine since the rebuild keeps hanging again.
I am well aware that building a new library from the "originals" folder would be further step, but there are too many slideshows, albums and other data I really don't want to loose. Any hints what to do?
From browsing the web, I somehow have the impression that the recent version of iPhoto produces this behaviour quite frequently. Is there a pertinent update on the horizon?
Thanks for any hints
Marc

Have you tried rebuilding the library with iPhoto Library Manager?
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
If this method fails your only recourse is to start over from scratch with a new library as you mentioned.
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