Iphoto will not Quit

After dumping out a couple of hundred photos from my library iPhoto would not quit, I forced quit and now I have a couple of hundred "ghost" photos, the photo meta information without the photo. If I try to delete the "ghost" photos and empty iPhoto trash, iPhoto will not quit again. Any solutions? I tried opening the content of the iPhoto file but there is no way I can figure out what meta data to delete that way.