SLOW iPhoto

In the past 2 or 3 days iPhoto is running VERY slow. Anything I do I get the spinning beach ball of death. What made it slow? What can I do. I am using iPhoto 8 on an iMac G5 with a power pc. I am running system 10.4.11. I have 1.25 GB of memory.
I do have almost 4000 pictures, but I have had that many for at least the past 5 months, the slowness just started.
THANKS!

johnsand9797
How big is your HD and how much free space on it?
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the apple and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild.
Regards
TD

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