When making a book, inaccurate thumbnails show on top

When i am working on a book, photos from all over my library show up as the thumbnails (about 50% of them are correct & 50% are inaccurate). When i double-click on the wrong thumbnails, the correct photo shows up (not the one on the thumbnail). i am not sure if it is a library issue...i have about 4000 pictures in my iphoto library and when i scroll the library it also happens there too (but changes back to the correct photo in a seconds). how can i fix this or does apple know that they need to find / create a fix for this?

Hi Ronald,
It seems the thumbnails are messed up. Try a rebuild of thumbnails and see if it solves the problem.
Try this:
Before doing a rebuild make sure iPhoto's trash bin is emptied. You can do this by control clicking on the trash bin, or from the menu bar under iPhoto.
Close iPhoto
Duplicate the iPhoto Library folder
Drag the duplicate to the desktop (hopefully you have enough room on your hard drive for the duplicate.)
Launch iPhoto holding down the Command and Option keys until you see the rebuild options screen.
Choose the first three options. If you were missing photos in your library, also choose the last option. Be advised that you will get a roll of orphaned photos and it might be quite huge. Most of them will already be in your iPhoto library, but use caution when deleting anything from this roll until you are sure the photos are still in your library in another place. It might be a good idea to share/export this roll of photos just in case you need to import them again.
Back to the rebuild, depending on the size of your library it might take some time. When it is done, hopefully your photos will be there.
You might see some unexpected results as I did when I did a rebuild. Photos had been moved to wrong dates, video clips had lost their duration info and some were even orphaned from the jpg pointer file. It took me some time to straighten it out again.
This is the reason to make a duplicate before you rebuild, in case you do not like the result. If you don't like the result, close iPhoto, then delete the rebuilt library and drag the duplicate back into the Pictures folder making sure the name is iPhoto Library. Launch iPhoto and it should open the library in the Pictures folder.

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