"PHOTOS FOUND IN THE iPHOTO LIBRARY THAT WERE NOT IMPORTED"

Ever since I imported some videos from a memory stick about 2 weeks ago, my iPhoto opens with the above message and then says that I need to save some photos that were not imported, and then precedes to create an empty folder of 'RECOVERED PHOTOS" with increasing sequential numbers and then stores it on the hard drive.
There is also a little message which pops down from the top when I go to close i-photo and am not sure what it says as it is too quick and I have never had this problem previously and now it is getting annoying!
Has anyone any idea how to make it stop doing this??? The 3 videos that I uploaded in iPhoto originally had to be converted to movies/ quick player however they only appeared as photos in first frame in i-photo and dont appear anywhere in my iMovie catalogue -please help if you can!
Thank you!

TERENCE DEVLIN - YOU ROCK!! Yes - I did what you suggested step by step and the import folder contained 3 files - Originals, Modified and another one. There were lots of the files with nothing in them and then the videos that I was speaking about repeated about 5 - 6 times in separate folders and different formats - bizarre - or maybe not really if I knew how the import mechanism of the software worked - but thankfully for me - I have your advice and it worked!!
The little message on closing about critical something or other blah, blah, is still there on closing and I don't remember it previously, but maybe it was always there.
All I know is there are no more questions about recovered folders and storing them on my C or whatever drive it is and my little films are intact. I will post another separate message about i-movie recognising these films, which I think they should at a later date.
As a first time brand new mac user (Christmas present Jan 10 - and very proud of it too!) I am amazed at the support available, Genius Bar (although I live in London and it is booked out a week in advance at anytime after office (me) work hours!) I am however also very grateful for the forum as I have never used a forum before and I can see why you deserve your *** rating as Apple support were slightly helpful when I called, but they are so busy and my lovely boyfriend (a long term mac user) told me to get online and ask the techy oracles - so thank you ever so much TD!!
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