Can't get back to "original" photo

I have been downloading my photos to my laptop, storing in iPhoto, and correcting in Photoshop Elements 4. I then store my images on an external hard drive. I've noticed that I've gotten some of those images out of my external hard drive to work on them on my iMAC. I can't get those images to revert back to the original image. What do I have clicked on my laptop that isn't allowing the original image to be saved?

Deborah,
Are you running your iPhoto library from the external drive? This should work. Or running iPhoto from your laptop, then saving to the external drive? You would have to have an iPhoto Library on the external drive as well. The only way to sync the 2 libraries to preserve the links between the original and modified files is to use iPhoto Library Manager to transfer the photos from the laptop library to the one on the external drive.
Is PE4 set up as your external editor in iPhoto, and are you accessing the photos for editing from within iPhoto?
If this is done, then Saving in PE4 will save the edited version back to the iPhoto library, and you will be able to Revert in iPhoto.
Doing a Save As and changing the location of the file or its filename will not save the edited version correctly. It will not be seen by iPhoto and will have no link to the original. Are you "saving as" your edits directly to the external hard drive? If so, they are not being saved to iPhoto at all.
Also, if your editing creates a layered .psd file, there are 2 ways to deal with this. Doing a Save with the new file extension will break the link between it and the original. You can flatten the image and have PE Save the jpeg. This will preserve the link between the 2 versions. Or keep the layers, and Save As to a location outside of the iPhoto Library folder. Then import into iPhoto as a new original. It will not be linked to the unedited version.

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