Copying pictures to library & import time?

I have over 5,000 pictures I want to transfer into iPhoto, and deselected "Copy files to library" to save space by not having the photos recopied to the library. But, when I do import some of the photos, it still copies the image files (albeit a slightly smaller jpg) into a "modified" folder, even though no pictures have been edited yet. I understand that iPhoto should create thumbnails, but I don't think it should be copying the whole image? The imports are also taking an extremely long time - almost 10 minutes for 200 pictures. This seems incredibly long, especially when it shouldn't be copying the image and just creating aliases. Is this a known bug, a what can I do to stop iPhoto from copying the images and taking so long to import?
PowerBook 15" (Oct. 2005) Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1.5 GHz G4, 1.5 GB RAM

Jaws:
Unless you have a lot of portrait oriented files, they should not take up that much room compared to having a "normal" library. The only way to rid yourself of that is to export the rotated file to the desktop, reimport it and then delete the original (remember if you're using the alias system you'll have to find and delete that original file form you source files as iPhoto does not touch them. The alia system is a great space saver. My 17,700 image files (27G worth) are represented by only a 1.7G iPhoto library. I've created some Tutorials to assist users in converting over to that system.
An image management system that will do what you want is iView MediaPro. You can have your images on an external HD and your catalog file, with thumbnail sizes up to 640 x 480, on your boot drive. You can still access the thumbnails, do your metadata organizing even if the external HD is not mounted. You can have very large preview thumbnails for running slideshows when the source files on the external HD are not available. That can, however, create very large catalogs which may get to large to handle easily. It's great for small catalogs where you want to share the images with people and not have the original files available.
Why would you consider Aperture when it copies the files to its library like iPhoto does in its normal mode? That won't save disk space. Besides it's hardware requirements may be more than your PB can deliver. That's been a bone on contention for a lot of users.

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