Slideshows just won't work (iPhoto 9.1.2)

Hi all,
I've just realized that I cannot do slideshows in iPhoto at all. I've been using this feature in the past but it was on an old version of iPhoto on my previous mac, and I think it's the first time I try on this one (MBP 13'', osx 10.6.7, iPhoto 9.1.2).
For example, in the "Events" view, when I click on the "Slideshow" icon in the bottom bar, the screen goes black just for an instant but then instead of actually playing anything, it goes back to the "Events" view.
Another symptom that must be related is that when I click "File -> New -> Slideshow", the slideshow-album does not get created correctly. What I get is an empty view with an empty row at the top (where the thumbnails should be) and a large black rectangle below. And again, if I click "play" the screen goes black only for an instant, just as if my slideshow was supposed to be zero seconds long.
Well, I am aware that this description of my problem is quite dodgy, but I don't know where to look for clues and I feel a bit lost (not that I really really need slideshows, but still this bug is kind of annoying).
Any insight would be welcome,
-Gyom

Mine is with the same build number (I suppose that 9.1.2 == build 605, and that build 605 == 9.1.2).
But I realize maybe one thing I did wrong was with the receipts thing. There were no pkg files per se (i.e. files with names ending in .pkg) but I had plenty of other files :
% cd /var/db/receipts
% ls *iPhoto*
com.apple.pkg.iPhoto.bom
com.apple.pkg.iPhoto.plist
com.apple.pkg.iPhoto9.1.1ContentUpdate.bom
com.apple.pkg.iPhoto9.1.1ContentUpdate.plist
com.apple.pkg.iPhoto9.1.1Update.bom
com.apple.pkg.iPhoto9.1.1Update.plist
com.apple.pkg.iPhoto9.1.2ContentUpdate.bom
com.apple.pkg.iPhoto9.1.2ContentUpdate.plist
com.apple.pkg.iPhoto9.1.2Update.bom
com.apple.pkg.iPhoto9.1.2Update.plist
com.apple.pkg.iPhoto9.1ContentUpdate.bom
com.apple.pkg.iPhoto9.1ContentUpdate.plist
com.apple.pkg.iPhoto9.1Update.bom
com.apple.pkg.iPhoto9.1Update.plist
com.apple.pkg.iPhotoContent.bom
com.apple.pkg.iPhotoContent.plist
com.apple.pkg.iPhotoLibraryUpgradeTool.bom
com.apple.pkg.iPhotoLibraryUpgradeTool.plist
Was I supposed to delete these as well ?

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