Aperture - how to organize lots of Photos with MBA ?

Hi,
Apologies if this may be a repeated question (I know this has probably been asked for million times).
I am sincerely looking for some advise to structure and organize my photos, hopefully to get it right at the beginning rather than fixing afterwards. Thanks in advance.
- I have around 50k+ photos, taking about 1,000 per month
- I just got a MBA, so obviously, I can't squeeze all these into the MBA
- therefore, thinking to go for "Referenced Library" approach to store the masters in an external NAS
Question 1 : can anyone recommend for how should I organize and where to store the Aperture library, the master, and the backup ?
Question 2 : can anyone recommend for a flow and structure I should be following after taking some pictures ?
For example, should I :
1. first import all pictures into MBA, removing the unwanted, then relocate the master to NAS ? or,
2. import all pictures into NAS, then perform the select and deletion .... etc.
As reference, here is what I have :
1. a 1TB timecapsule
2. a MBA just bought, with ~170GB free
3. a NAS (mirrored, connected to the timecapsule), with ~ 1.7TB space
Background : I am not professional. However, these pictures meant a lot to me so very keen to find a proper way to safekeep and organize them. Any experience / advise would be mostly welcome. Much appreciated.

Which version of iPhoto do you have?
Is this the procedure you followed?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iPhoto/9.0/en/pht75a3414a.html

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