Deleting Thumbnails

I had to reinstall my OS after finding Snow Leopard slowed my system to a crawl. I have copies of my iPhoto libraries in several places and multiple duplicates, including duplicates of thumbnails, which I would like to pare down to save space. I'm spending quite some time going through my library to get rid of duplicate photos and would certainly like to get rid of unnecessary thumbnails, as well. Is there any downside to this? Can I just do a rebuild after I've cleaned out my stash?

...and yet another question...or maybe more. If I'm using both windows and mac, and I'm doing backups as you suggested, how would I access the images from my windows machine? Someone suggested exploring an online service like DropBox - what are your thoughts on that?
Background info: I was using windows for photo editing as I had PSE on that machine, and had done a lot of scanning and storing of my family's very old photos, as well as taking thousands of sports action photos during my daughter's activities. I now have PSE for my mac (not yet installed since the reinstallation of Leopard - want to get the hard drive and duplicate photos cleaned up before installing)and would probably do my editing on the mac, but not all those photos (scanned and otherwise)are on my mac yet, and some cannot be directly transferred as the external hard drive is windows formatted and won't interact with my MBP. I was thinking that if I used an online service, I could consolidate the photo files from both platforms, although I will still have to do some major duplicate destruction on the files stored via windows.
Yes, I'm obviously anal about redundancy with duplicates on both platforms (I require internet access for work and have two sources of internet access, as well - cable and DSL - not a big risk taker...). Since I'm not very computer literate beyond working with programs, I don't necessarily understand the ramifications of past formatting decisions and now have to live with the consequences.
Lots of rambling, sorry. Just grateful to have access to expertise. So, anyway, my questions are:
-How to access windows formatted hard drive photo files from my mac;
-if I will be using PSE, do I want to import photos into iPhoto at all;
-will photos imported into iPhoto be accessible to PSE;
-your opinion on internet storage;
-recommendations on external hard drives I could use to make backups (considering using Super Duper) with the intention of using two different drives, taking one in to work to safely store in case of disaster and one at home, then intermittently switching them out so the remote one doesn't get too outdated.
Redundancy, redundancy.
Again, thanks.

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iPhoto08
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Last edited by off220 (2011-02-04 22:48:23)

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