The selected folder contains no pictures

I like to use my albums in iphoto as my screen savers. I've been doing this for a long time. I simply go into the system preferences and select the album I want as my screensaver. Today for some reason I went up to the hot corner and got the error message above. I went to the album in iphoto and all my pictures are there. They are also in the main library. I thought perhaps dragging the originals from the library back into the albums would help but they just bounced back. Any other suggestions?

I called Apple support and after many calls and much troubleshooting you won't believe what caused this. I had added /06 to my albums so I would be able to see they were from 2006. The forward slash caused this whole thing. I got rid of the forward slash and put a dash in its place and voila! There's my pictures. End of problem. Don't use slashes, question marks or other uncommon markings on album names and you won't have a problem.

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