Video Issues in iPhoto Slideshow

Hello Everyone,
If anyone could help me out with the following problem I would greatly appreciate it:
I am creating a slideshow in iPhoto, I have a combination of photos and short video clips within this particular slideshow.  I have the slideshow starting with pictures, then the middle portion are a few short clips, then the slideshow ends with more photos.
When I do a preview, when the picture portion ends and the first video clip begins to play iPhoto freezes everytime.  I have tried to preview the videos within the slideshow builder and they also freeze iPhoto and crash the application.
When I go to the albums section in iPhoto where the photos and videos originaly came from, the clips all work there but for some reason in the slideshow builder they freeze and crash the program.  I am forced to do a command+option+esc close of the program everytime.
I have created a similar style slideshow back in October of 2011 with both photos and videos.  When I created this previous slideshow back then it worked fine and I had no issues.  I still have this slideshow saved and when I try to preview or play this previous slideshow now I have the same issue..when the photos finish and the videos start the program freezes and crashes.
I thought maybe it was because of file type, so I have imported .AVI, .MP4, .WMV, .M4V and all of these various file types all freeze and crash the slideshow.
Any ideas?  I tried to do a system update, but my system is fully up to date.
I currently have iPhoto 11 version 9.2.3 (629.52)
Any help or feedback would really be appreciated, thanks in advance!

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