Duplicate images = duplicate library from restore?

I'm very confused. Because of issues in A3, I restored back to A2 and rebuilt, actually restored a couple of times, etc, then REMOVED (I thought) all of my libraries from A3 access so that I could do a clean A3 install and upgrade. (My A2 library was temporarily in the TRASH, and my current A3 library was relocated to a desktop folder, as suggested on another troublshooting thread here).
So, I opened up A3 after this install, and there were all my photos again, and some doubled. Where would A3 have accessed my photos from if they were in the trash and another folder? I was expecting to direct A3 to the folder myself on this "clean install. So now, I'm thinking my huge library is doubled up in here somewhere, and how do I find duplicates from my restores and delete them?

Might be better to start with the clean and empty library you intended to begin with. If you want to recover your library rather than reconstruct one, do you have a good Aperture Vault or backup you trust to do the recovery?
Not sure where Aperture is finding eveything by what you describe, however you might quit Aperture and search for all your current locations of the Aperture Library and rename each one to be more descriptive (at least temporarily). For example, rename various files as appropriate to make each unique, such as *Aperture 2 Library OLD*, *Aperture 3 Library OLD*, etc.
Within Aperture 3, you can create a new *Aperture 3 Library* using the File -> Switch to Library command. That panel will display all the Aperture libraries you have, but you may want to create a new empty library and them Import as appropriate.
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