Snow Leopard freezes with iPhoto

Hi everyone,
I'm using a Mac Pro with 10.6.6. I'm also using iPhoto 11 (9.1.1). I have 13GB 667 MHz DDR2 RAM, with 2 x 2.66GHz Duel-Core Xeon processors and I have 160GB free of a 750GB main HDD.
iPhoto seems to be freezing my computer several times per day. Most times, it just freezes everything except the mouse for several seconds. This can happen whether I'm opening iPhoto, trying to enlarge a picture within an event, or even just attempting to scroll through events. Also, it appears that if I leave iPhoto open for an extended period, when I return to my computer it runs slowly and will occasionally have the graphics. . . uhmm, shredded? Yeah, not sure how to describe it, but lots of bright colored horizontal stripes and you can just make out some of the windows on the screen. Sometimes that clears up long enough to let me restart the computer properly, sometimes I just have to force the computer to restart.
I've tried doing an archive and install, but no luck. I've even tried getting a virus scan, but it doesn't detect any problems. Does anyone know what else I should try?
Thanks,
Lawrence

An intermittent problem that can't be reproduced at will is going to be very hard to track down, whether it's caused by hardware or software. The corrupted graphics display strongly suggests a problem in the video subsystem. I think what I'd do is first try running for a while from a clean, freshly installed system on an external drive. If you still have the problem, then it's definitely hardware. Then I'd wait until the display was acting up again and take it in that state to an Apple Store or other authorized service center.
Just for your information, although repairing permissions is often recommended in these forums as the solution to just about any problem -- usually by people who don't know what permissions are or what it means to "repair" them -- it's almost always a waste of time, and could potentially cause data loss if the device being "repaired" is failing. If you're going to do it, you should back up first. You don't have to boot from the installation media; that's only necessary for directory repair, which is something different.
A corrupted display will never be fixed by repairing permissions.

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