When to reinstall iPhoto

I am running Tiger-- and have about 7500 pix in IPhoto 5.0.4. I have 512 MB Ram and about 10GB empty on the hard drive. Iphoto has become terribly slow. 
I tried disc repair from the startup disc and got "Reserved fields in the catalog have incorrect data" a whole lot of times. I also got "The underlying task reported failure on exit. (-9972)" Any thoughts?
   So far I have......
   1. Established another user login-- the I photo program seems to run pretty well with a smaller library to deal with--        750 pix vs. 7500. Is it that simple that I should just empty the library to another drive?
   2. Run disc repair & verify/permission repair & verify from startup disc.
   3. I have tried deleting the .plist. and rebuilding.
Should I reinstall iPhoto from the startup disc? Can I only reinstall iPhoto without reinstalling the whole OS?

First, you can't import a photo from inside the library package/folder.  That's one of iPhoto's ways of preventing duplicates.
Since you've confirmed that all of the original files are in the Originals foider try starting over from scratch with a new library:
Start over from scratch with new library
Start over with a new library and import the Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) or the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from your original library as follows:
1.  Move the existing library folder to the desktop.
2. Open the library package like this.
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3. Launch iPhoto and, when asked, select the option to create a new library.
4. Drag the Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) or the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from the iPhoto Library on the desktop into the open iPhoto window.
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This will create a new library with the same Events as the original library but will not keep the metadata, albums, books slideshows and other projects. Your original library will still be intact for further attempts at fixing if so desird.

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