Thumbnails appear as gray boxes

For an unknown reason, all of my library photos turned into gray boxes. New downloads are visible and unaffected by the problem. I used iPhoto's built-in rebuild function, which did not help. I then downloaded iPhoto Library Manager and started the rebuild function. A dialog box saying "Getting photo information..." remained for about 90 minutes, at which point I cancelled the operation.
Are any of these possible concerns:
- My iPhoto library is on an external HD.
- There are about 7,000 photos in my library
- I had a previous issue of not being able to complete downloads into iPhoto. That issue was finally resolved by upgrading to iPhoto 6.0.4
- I had cleared space on my computer's HD equal to the iPhoto library size before using iPhoto's own rebuild function. There is not much unused space available on the external HD where my iPhoto library resides.
I am running OSX 10.3.9 on a G4 iBook.

That indicates that the Album.xml file is damaged and doesn't represent all of the photos.
It looks like you'll have to start over with a new library on the boot drive and import just the Originals folder from the library on the external hard drives as follows:
Creating a new library while preserving the Events from the original library.
Delete the iPLM created library from your boot drive.
Open the library package on the external HD like this.
Launch iPhoto and, when asked, select the option to create a new library.
Drag the Originals folder from the iPhoto Library on the external HD into the open iPhoto window.
This will create a new library with the same Events as the original library if you have the Finder checkbox unchecked in the Events preference pane.
If you have a lot invested in keywords, titles and comments you can try following the first 7 steps of Tutorial #1 before creating the new library and importing the folder from the external library. Make sure the external library is the default library for iPhoto before starting the tutorial workflow.
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