Updating Thumbnails... each time I open iPhoto

Hello-
Every time I open iPhoto, it updates the thumbnails. I have tried the following to no avail:
1) Remove the iPhoto preferences from home/library/preferences,
2) Remove the iPhoto cache from home/library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto
3) Rebuild the Thumbnails (command-option while opening iPhoto)
4) Repair permissions (command-option while opening iPhoto)
5) Repair database (command-option while opening iPhoto)
Please let me know if you have encountered this and what you did to fix it. Thank you.

I'm experiencing the same issue with iPhoto 9.3. I rebuild the library using each of the four option (only one can be used at a time with iPhoto 9.3)
with no success. It was the only library of my 15 libraries that exhibited this issue. Lastly I rebuild the library with iPhoto Library Manager and iPLM crashed. Evidently that one library is damaged in such amanner that It can't be rebuilt by iPLM nor merged into an new library. iPLM crashes with the following mesage:
This is the console message I get each time iPLM fails to merge the library:
06/15/12 4:42:25.950 PM iPhoto Library Manager: *** Assertion failure in -[AUAppleEvent sendWithMode:timeout:], /Volumes/Ratbert/Users/bwebster/Projects/UberProject/CarbonUtils/AUAppleEvent.m :372
06/15/12 4:42:34.153 PM Console: ISGetIconFamilyFromStorage: seed mismatch for 2c510003, actual seed is 625558ec
I have no idea what it means. I imported the Masters folder from the problem library into a new library. There were 15 files that could not be imported although they were formats that iPhoto does recognize, jpg, psd and CR2.
Go figure.
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