Duplicates / thumbnails / duplicate thumbnails

after some hard drive organizing, backing up and reimporting iphoto library, i discovered that several of the photos were duplicates. i must have done something half sleep, (- not clever!). anyway i went through the whole of the library in finder, deleting duplicates. (tough job, 5200 pics). but now the thumbs for the deleted pics remain in the iphoto interface, and i dont know which refer to the files i kept and which to the deleted ones…! i want to delete the thumbs that dont correspond to my current library, does anybody have a clue? i read something about a rebuild command, would this be it? anyway i cant find it. please tell me where it is, since my version of iphoto is not english. thanks alot.
iphoto 5.0.4

Hi iColor,
Two Apple kbs for you to read first:
Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto library folder
About the iPhoto Library folder
If you have your backup iPhoto Library folder still, I would start all over.
-Export any photos from the new library that are not in the old library to a folder on the desktop
-Delete the iPhoto Library folder in the Pictures folder
-Drag the iPhoto Library folder from your backup into the Pictures folder
-Launch iPhoto
-when iPhoto opens the library it should be the same as you left it.
-Import the new photos (folder on the desktop) that you exported from the old library

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