Themes in iPhoto have disapeared

I went to order a book threw iPhoto, that i ordered in the past and the themes are gone. The themes are what iPhoto makes the books with. Hows is this even possible!? I have tried reinstalling iPhoto from the iLife disk as well as reinstalling from Time machine. I still cant get the themes back so i cant make a another book, or any new books.
Does anyone have a suggestion?

studiolisa
Check out OT's post in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6394288&#6394288
Also, note his comments here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6998840&#6998840
Look in your User/Library/Application Support/iPhoto folder for a Themes folder. If you find it there move it to the HD/Library/Application Support/iPhoto folder and reboot. Then try iPhoto again. That may save you having to go thru the reinstallation.
Regards
TD

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