Running out of ideas - how to stop iPhoto from constantly spinning!

Help! I've got iPhoto 5.0.4 and it consistently appears to get stuck in a spin during normal use - usually when unmounting a camera, but also when switching between applications and sometimes when it's simply left by itself. I've tried a number of things to resolve this including resetting the preferences, rebuilding the library, running it as a different user, yet nothing seems to work.
The only clue that I have is that if I sample iPhoto when stuck in a spin I see another thread that is not normally visible stuck on a semaphore when trying to perform a selector on the main thread, and the main thread is also stuck waiting for a semaphore. Presumably it's somehow managed to deadlock itself but I've no idea how to go any further...
Any ideas on how to go about finding a solution for this problem would be greatly appreciated!

Steve - I'm just another user like you - not a "pro" - but I think especially if your photos are all hi-res, i.e. over 1mb each in size, iPhoto may be choking on your library size. Just my 2c.
You may want to break up your library into smaller pieces.
Do this carefully - and be sure you have your library backed up before starting. There have been other posts in the past about a product called iPhoto Library Manager. It's a relatively inexpensive and very good product that facilitates this process. That's what I used when my library got too big.
Good luck

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