Did iPhoto shrink my photos?

After importing all of my photos into iPhoto 6, even ones of very high resolution, such as some 1650x1050 wallpapers, appear as super-small thumbnail sizes. Even when I pull the slider all the way to the high-resolution setting, my pictures become blurry and pixelated, as if I am enlarging a thumbnail and not the actual photo itself. The info box for such pictures still claims a large resolution, but it doesn't display as such. It's as if iPhoto shrunk all my pictures. How can I get iPhoto to recognize my photos full resolution and stop displaying them as blurry thumbnails? Thanks in advance for help.

neovincci,
You mention that you imported all your photos to iPhoto 6. Were you upgrading from an older version of iPhoto? If so, and you picked Import to Library, what did you designate as your source?
The size you mention is exactly the size of the thumbnails that iPhoto stores in the Data folder. If you imported those, no amount of rebuilding will fix that because you might have imported the wrong folder.
Could you be more specific about the procedure you used to get your photos into iPhoto 6?
If upgrading from a previous iPhoto version, your best method is to back up the entire iPhoto Library folder (in case something fails) and then simply point iPhoto to your iPhoto Library folder (if necessary - if it's stored elsewhere, other than the Pictures folder or renamed). iPhoto 6 upgrades the iPhoto Library folder and deals with the whole reorganization without the need for using "Import to Library" which is a kind of dumb function - it simply imports every image within the designated folder, even if the designated folder is your iPhoto Library.

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