Corrupted Finder and Ghosted iPhoto Faces

So here are 2 problems haunting me more than one year.
1. iPhoto is wonderful at how it store and manage your photos in one and only one place. All inside the app. Users cannot even search in Finder or Spotlight. Right?
Unfortunately, for my Lion, all database of iPhoto are shown in Finder. Masters, Previews, Thumbnails, Faces, etc. All just popped up.
What has happened to my Lion or iPhoto???
2. Faces in such a sweet feature of iPhoto. Because of the first problem I encountered (listed above), I can see how iPhoto handles those faces.
What frustrates me the most is that iPhoto stores those faces FOREVER, even I delete the Faces of photos or I delete the photos.
I hate iPhoto storing those unwanted/deleted Faces files. They waste my hard disc.
What can I do to solve these 2 problems???
I have rebuilt iPhoto database more than 10 times. Also rebuilt the whole library using iPhoto Library Manager. Nothing worked.
HELP!!!

1. You're using the 'All My Files' search, and that's why these are showing. There's nothing wrong here, just bad interface design from Apple.
2. If space is a problem then you can run your iPhoto Library from an external disk
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Regards
TD

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