Best way to root out redundant files?

So my photo folder is a complete mess. My database died, and I made the mistake of just reimporting my Pictures folder and iPhoto library. Which it failed after 3-4 attempts. To make a long story short, my hard drive is being eaten up by redundant photo and movie files - copies of copies of copies. My iPhoto pictures are filled with photos, photo thumbnails, and faces.
I've tried Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto, but that only roots out iPhoto dupes. It doesn't have any way to root out thumbnails and faces that have been imported as photos by mistake. It also seems to not catch every duplicate. Lastly, it doesn't seem to reclaim much hard drive space (doesn't do movies?).
So- I am looking at fixing things the only way I know how - pulling every photo and movie off my hard drive and onto an external drive, going through all the subdirectories and rooting out dupes and thumbnails by hand, completely nuking iPhoto, reinstalling and importing the hand-organized and cleaned folder.
Now for my question: Are there any ways to isolate thumbnails and faces from regular photos? How about finding duplicate photos that have identical content, but different names (IMG_003.jpg and IMG_003 copy.jpg, IMG_003 copy 2.jpg)? how about originals from modified? Any way to isolate movies with a framerate of 2fps (movie thumbnails)?
The big problem is that anything automated needs to be pretty safe. I don't want to accidentally delete some old low-res originals, or delete 4 things that say "copy" when the original can't be found, etc. Anything to save me time would be appreciated.

What do you have available to work with?
If you still have the old library try to repair it - hold the option and command keys down while you double click on it and keep the keys down until the first aid window appears - repair permissons and repeat and rebuild your database. If that does not work you can start over with the contents of the masters folder and build a totally new library
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