Deleting Orphaned Thumbnails

Some time back I deleted all of the movies from my iPhoto library. Today I was looking to free up some space on my hard drive and discovered, by way of selecting "All Movies" in the Finder sidebar, that I have over 1 GB of movie thumbnails in my iPhoto library. These thumbnails corespond to all of the movies I had previously deleted.
I have launched iPhoto with command+option held down and selected the entire suite of rebuild options. When the rebuild completed, all the movie thumbnails were still there.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get rid of them? I'm hesitent to simply delete them through the Finder for fear of screwing up the iPhoto database.
Thanks in advance.

Give this a try: rebuild the library using iPhoto Library Manager as follows:
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 -Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 -Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your User/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File->Rebuild Library menu option
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
Then check to see if the new library has all of the original photos and none of those rogue thumbnail files.

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