Spinning dial in iPhoto

I have a Macbook OS X 10.6.8 & was trying to upgrade my iPhoto to 9.2.3 all I am getting in iPhoto is the spinning dial.
Looking for ideas on what to do?

Is iPhoto the only application that is slow? Or are other applications also having problems? How much free storage do you have?
Did the slowness start suddenly or gradually? Can you remember what you did last, before the problem first occurred?
Slowness in iPhoto can be caused by several reasons: The most common reasons are
Lack of free storage. If your Hard Drive is filling up and you have less than 10 GB left, free storage asap.
A corruption of your Photo library. Try to repair or rebuild the iPhoto library: iPhoto 6 and later: Rebuilding the iPhoto library
Currupted media files in your iPhoto Library. If the problem started after you imported new videos or photos, remove the last import from your iPhoto Library.
Storing the library on a network volume.
Instaling incompatible software, that modifies the system.
To find out, if the problem is caused by your iPhoto Library, test with a new iPhoto Library. Is iPhoto more responsive, if you create a new library with a few test photos?
To check, if the problem is system wide, sign into a different user account and launch iPhoto using that account. Is iPhoto more responsive, if you work from a different user account?

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This happened once when I had Tiger on an external firewire LACIE drives; I took an update, and the system would no longer boot.
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