Slideshow Captions Messed Up

Is anyone else having a problem with slideshow captions? The problem is that the captions do not match the picture being displayed when using the classic theme.
To troubleshoot, I created a brand new user, started iPhoto, and copied in some of the "Fruit" ichat icons. When I play a "classic" slideshow with titles and descriptions displayed, the text is wrong from the start. I have also repaired permissions and confirmed that I have the latest version of iPhoto.
Does anyone else see this, or should I try to reload the software?

The recent update to iPhoto (8.0.2) has solved my problem.
Glad to hear.
This implies either that the bug was real and the update fixed it (and that the people that tried to help didn't try to replicate the bug, but instead only offered canned advice) or the update inadvertently fixed my problem (maybe some kind of hidden permissions thing).
So, it was which, a bug? Or a glitch local to your machine? Well, I tried to replicate the problem, and guess what, I simply didn’t have the issue. My captions weren’t messed up. There have been no other reports of the problem on here that I have seen. For those reasos I would suspect a local glitch.
So how could someone replicate this?
Regards
TD

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