Duplicate photos on import and imported photos not appearing

I brand new to the Mac world and I am hoping to get iPhoto to help me organize my photos.
I have set it up so that my wife and I both are separate users (or accounts, I guess). Plus, I set up a "media" user, where I import all our photos. Then, I share the Media account with my both my account and with my wife's.
Two weird things have happened. On one import, I got duplicates of every item. Kind of a pain and a huge waste of diskspace, especially for video files.
2), There were a bunch of photos that were visible on the shared account, but when I tried to import them into my own account they wouldn't show up. I actually clicked and dragged the shared account to my photo library and then checked off the "do not copy duplicates." But not all of them moved. It's not that many photos (<1500) and I cannot figure out for the life of my why they are not showing up. And the iphoto help files seem useless on this.
Any help much appreciated

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. For the duplicates (as long as they are viewed as duplicates while in iPhoto) you can use Duplicate Annihilator to cull them out.
As for the sharing I've not done any of that so can't help. But Terence or Larry will surely be along and can help you there.
OT

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Thanks for giving it a try. Let me know how you get on!
If you have any problems, please don't hesitate to contact me.
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