Why is iPhoto 11 so slow?

iPhoto 11 (9.1.5) is really slow and unresponsive...hanging up other programs, and generally behaving poorly. Anyone have any insight as to why it's so slow?

Performance issues can be caused by a variety of issues - jointly and separately.
How much free space on the HD?
How big is the Library?
As a Test:
Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?

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Questions:
How much Ram?
How big is your HD and how much free space on it?
How many items in your Library?
Have you tried rebuilding?
Have you tried a test library?
Have you tried deleting the cache?

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Because something's wrong?
There are 9 different versions of iPhoto and they run on seven different versions of the Operating System. The tricks and tips for dealing with issues vary from version to version and OS to OS. So before anyone can help, they need information to work with. Things like:
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Create a new account (systempreferences -> accounts) make a new Library, import some shots and see if the problem is repeated there.
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I was recently on holidays and had all my events nicely split on Dad's computer but when I went to export it I couldn't retain any of this information. Now I have to replicate this all again on my computer.
It wasn't possible to export the entire library as the external drive was fat32 format an I didn't want all of it. It would be nice to export a bunch of events to someone and have it retain the name.
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Why does iPhoto (9.0/11) not retain the Event name when exporting more than one event? (using File -> Export -> Album name with number).
Exporting a single Event retains the Event name which is what I'd expect. But highlighting more than one event and exporting it renames the images to Events 001.JPG, Event 002.JPG etc.
I was recently on holidays and had all my events nicely split on Dad's computer but when I went to export it I couldn't retain any of this information. Now I have to replicate this all again on my computer.
It wasn't possible to export the entire library as the external drive was fat32 format an I didn't want all of it. It would be nice to export a bunch of events to someone and have it retain the name.
Does anyone have a work around or will this be fixed at some point by Apple?

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