Duplicate libraries, multiple edits

I've made a mess.
I have a laptop and iMac. I do a lot of editing on the road. I decided to use an external hard drive and keep my iPhoto Library on it. I think this might have been mistake #1 -- I just copied the library over to the hard drive and left the original in place. It was a managed library so I thought this was okay. I'm not sure that it is. I did this probably a year ago. No issues were apparent.
Eventually, I opened the wrong library on the iMac (had the original open on the local drive), not the external. I edited files like this for a couple of months before I caught my mistake. (I used to keep the ext drive where I couldn't see it. Not any more.)
All the while, when I was on the road, I was editing files on the external drive, too. So I have two months of edits in two different libraries.
1. While trying to fix this, I opened the external library on the iMac. I selected Reveal in Finder and uh, oh. It went to a folder in the orginal iPhoto Libary on the local hard drive. Yikes. So, I'm thinking I had a problem from day 1 and didn't know it?
2. I tried to make a smart album of photos that had been edited. I'm not sure this works. It came up with about 30 photos out of 2200. I'ved edited probably 150 photos, over the life of the library, with the iPhoto editor. At least. I've also edited many, many more with an external editor (PSE), but those got new file names and are easy to find. Is there a better way to find modified files?
3. I have iPhoto Library Manager. Can this help me solve these problems?
Thanks.

Has to be a rather high resolution monitor for this window arrangement to show up... a 15" MacBook Pro will "just" do it.
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