Alias freakout 2: imported photo files come in as alias

This may be a second question, or may simply be an extension of the first, "original files changing to alias." I'm on iPhoto 8 7.5.1. I download my shots into PhotoMechanic so I can do renaming etc. Photo Mechanic makes files in my designated picture file and stores the downloaded shots there while I rename them. After that process is over, I import those files into iPhoto. I've been doing this for ages. Now, all of a sudden, when I import anything - even straight off the desktop - into iPhoto, the file I end up with in my iPhoto Originals file is an alias. Today, I imported a shot straight from desktop and it shows up in the library as an alias with a FIREWORKS icon. Fireworks had nothing to do with the process - it wasn't even open. But many of the icons are NOT FIREWORKS. Many of them - I've gotta figure out what, exactly they are. All are alias. So the library is pointing to sources outside of itself???
I am freaking out.

Same questions as you previous post.
Regards
TD

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