Creating a removeable subset of the iPhoto Database

My iPhoto library has grown to the size where I have to make CD/DVD Backups of the photos (and subsequently store the disk images on an external hard drive for further backup safety), just to have enough space to keep Mac OS X running smoothly.
Looking at these disc backups, it seems as if they just make a smaller iPhoto library, storing all the information, modified versions, and originals.
My question is, can I have sub-libraries on an external drive where I just need to plug in the drive, and can then access all the photos in that library and use them normally? It seems as if iPhoto is already able to do it with discs burned, but there is no other way to export photos in this manner.
I understand Apple needing to dumb down the abilities of iPhoto to keep inexperienced users from messing up their iPhoto libraries, but this feature seems as if it could be easily implemented without trouble.
Any ideas on how to do this?
15" PowerBook G4 (DL Super Drive)   Mac OS X (10.4.4)   1.5GB RAM, 80GB HD

Ok, how do I tell Apple that hard drive space, although cheap, does not grow on trees, especially in my PowerBook
I'm looking through the "rebuilt" library (which I had to do the "rebuild thumbnails" thing to, because it didn't get that right), and there are tons of pictures in the "modified" folder that I did absolutely no modifications to.
It turns out, iPhoto is making 2 copies of every portrait (camera turned 90°) image I take when it imports them into the library. This wastes about 3GB of my hard drive space...
And for some reason, when I did the rebuild thumbnails, it duplicated the thumbnails for movie files, so now there are 2 of each of those in the "modified" folder for each movie.
I used the iPhoto Library Manager to rebuild, then used the command+option menu to recreate the thumbnails.
Whatever is going on, Apple needs to fix it. My 10 mega-pixel camera already fills up my hard drive, and making needless copies of photos doesn't help it at all.
Overall, the iPhoto Library Manager seemed to work fine for me. I'd like to split the library now, but unfortunately, that's a "paid" feature, so I'm going to have to work around that (duplicate and prune...) Apple should give that guy some cash, and incorporate everything it does into iPhoto, just to make it easier for people.
Heck, I may just go ahead and spring for aperture (or Adobe Light Room), but seeing as my camera doesn't support RAW images (thank you Canon...), I'd be paying for a ton of features I won't ever use. I want to have the ability to easily manage my photos, and be able to export, print, make slideshows, open in iMovie, etc. iPhoto already does it all, it's just that if you want to store photos in more than once place, things get complicated.
Apple needs to make "iPhoto Advanced" or "Aperture Express"...

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