How a gallery of 10,000 photos became 30,000 photos !?!?

Having problems with my Mac G4 120GB HD I backed it to an external HD including iPhoto 6.0.6 library. I formatted the HD, reinstalled the system and copied back the iPhoto 6.0.6 library to it.
The result was that instead of some 10,000 photos I have today 30,000:
The Originals, the Modified and the Thumbs, and each of course has its thumb; all show in iPhoto main window
How do I shrink my gallery back to its original volume?
How do I rearrange the Modified photos in a way that will enable me to "Revert to Original"?
Note: In some "Originals" images the option "revert to original" exists but on most it do not.
Your help will be much appreciated. thanks

At a guess you imported your iPhoto Library Folder from the back up into the new iPhoto. This treated all the pics as new pics. Hence you triplication, to coin a word.
Go to your Pictures Folder and move the iPhoto Library Folder there to the desktop.
So, do you still have that back up? If so, copy it to the Pictures Folder and launch iPhoto. Does that work?
If it does, trash the one on the desktop.
Regards
TD

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