Black screen when opening photo iPhoto / iLife '11

I've seen a few other posts for this but still haven't found an answer that works for me. I had been working on my computer (had iPhoto open) and it crashed. I had to hold the power button down to shut it off and reboot. Upon reboot, I have this problem with iPhoto. The thumbs show up just fine but when I double-click an image to view just one image at a time, I get a black screen. I can see the navigation to go next / previous, I see attempted face recognition, I see the thumbs below and all the Info window stuff is there too.

Things I've tried:
- File > Reveal in Finder > Original File - it shows up just fine. I can even double-click and view the image in Preview
- Tried to Command-Opt open and do all three of the bottom options
- I tried deleting the plist iPhoto files for user
- I even downloaded iPhoto Library Manager software and tried rebuilding the library
- I tried removing iPhoto (delete app, receipts, plists) and reinstalling (iLife '11), then installing updates
- When I open iPhoto I don't see any particular messages in Console > Console Messages

I recently found an entry that reads:
2/18/11 1:59:02 PM iPhoto[3482] __CFServiceControllerBeginPBSLoadForLocalizations timed out while talking to pbs

Any help would be greatly appreciated, don't know what happened or what to do to fix from this point.