Editing with photoshop gives duplicate images

Prior to going to Lion and iLife 11, when I edited photos with Photoshop that were in iPhoto, the edited images was all that was visible in the iPhoto window, but could revert to the original image that was filed "invisibily" in background if necessary.
Now as soon as I begin to edit a photo (which is nearly all my digital photos) a duplicate image is created to the right of the original image in iPhoto and both remain in the iPhoto window. However, if I edit using iPhoto (which the tools I need for my editing), a second image is not created and the revert to original image option is now available. This behavior is what happened when using Photoshop to edit previously.
If my1000 or more photos each year are doubled on the Mac as well as what is synched to the iPad, this is going to really eat up space at 2-4 MB per high resolution picture. Importing images to iMovie or iDVD will be a nightmare having to chose what appears to be the corrected image since they both appear to have the same film ID when do a get info. If I so grab of a group of pictures I will have to delete them in iMovie/iDVD or have to select one by one (which my be the most time consuming).
Am I doing something wrong? Was this a change in behavior with edits? If it is, I sure don't like it.
I don't want to try to delete an original image so there is only one image showing if I can't revert to the orginal image from the edited version.
Is there anyway to just see the edited image in the iPhoto window?????

This is a change introduced with iPhoto 11. You can't change the behaviour.
IPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback and let them know what you think.
If you're worried about space then you can run a Library from an External Disk very easily.
Regards
TD

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From: "Barbara B." <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:05:25 -0600
To: Warren Newman <[email protected]>
Subject: Iphoto Editing with Photoshop Elements 9
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