Why did all my photos suddenly become flagged

The 9.3 update to iPhoto '11 was installed about a week ago, and I haven't done much with the library since then (though my wife has imported some pictures). This evening, I launched the program, created a new album, and then clickied on "Flagged" to link some of those photos into the new album. Somehow, Flagged is now showing every picture in the library (over 38,000) as "Flagged"). I don't think there was anything strange about the album creation ... it happened that I had highlighted another album as I executed the command, so my new album had those same 30-odd pictures linked and I had to remove them from the album. The initial display of "Flagged" showed only 18 photos ... untill I clicked on it.
Is this something that could have happened with the database rebuild from the 9.3 upgrade ?

Some additional data as I experiment with this. If I explicitly flag a photo in some other view, the Flagged category is temporarily restored to normalcy. But it reverts back to showing all photos in the library if I leave the properly functioning flagged folder and do some operations elsewhere in the library (moving photos albums, etc.).

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