Can I prevent iPhoto 11 from downloading my Flickr photos?

I'm very pleased to see that uploading photos to Flicker via iPhoto 11 works an awful lot better than it did with iPhoto 9. I still don't like the fact that it's synced - I would prefer it to just upload - but I think I can live with it.
What I can't live with, is iPhoto downloading photos from Flickr that I uploaded by other means in the past (ie via the website and Uploadr on a Windows PC). I noticed it was doing this by hitting the right arrow key while viewing the last photo in the Photos view and all these random old photos (which I haven't imported into iPhoto yet) popped up. When I view the information for these photos all that displays is one sentence: "This photo was downloaded from your Flickr account." (None of the metadata I manually entered on Flickr has been downloaded with the image.)
How do I stop this from happening? I already have the photos iPhoto is downloading from Flickr elsewhere on my SSD. SSD space is valuable so I don't want duplicates of these photos.
I tried deleting one of the offending photos in iPhoto and it disappeared from Flickr. I tried moving the original files out of the iPhoto package file and they don't seem to disappear from Flickr but they show up in iPhoto as errors. Rebuilding the library does not clear these errors.
Only 2 of the 121 sets I uploaded to Flickr before I started using iPhoto have been downloaded so far and my guess is that's because I opened the sets in iPhoto (to see what would happen). Can anyone confirm if this is correct? If I avoid opening any more old Flickr sets in iPhoto will that avoid the photos being downloaded to my SSD?
Otherwise, if iPhoto is slowly but surely going to download all my old Flickr photos, I will end up with about 7-9GB of duplicated files which I absolutely do not want.
If I want to stop syncing because of this issue, is there a way to remove the conncetion between iPhoto 11 and Flickr without losing any photos from Flickr? Including both photos I have uploaded without iPhoto (2006-2012) and with iPhoto (2012 onwards).
Many many thanks in advance for your help!
Bronwen

Welp, evidently I just like the sound of my own voice so here's one last post on the topic.
This whole thing was seriously driving me crazy so here's what I've done:
Went to http://www.flickr.com/account/sharing/ ---> Account links ---> edit
Next to "iPhoto OS X" clicked "Remove permission?" & confirmed at the next step
My understanding is that because I've revoked permission on Flickr's side, iPhoto doesn't have the power to wipe anything from Flickr now. I think this means I can also remove the account on iPhotos's side, and maybe even those duplicate photos it downloaded, but I'm not brave enough to test either of those out yet.
Moving forward, I think I'm going to use Flickery (http://www.flickeryapp.com) to upload my photos to Flickr instead: this means I can edit everything in iPhoto, add all the titles/descriptions/tags in iPhoto, then just do a one way upload using Flickery instead of a two way sync from iPhoto.

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