How can I view all image files

I have a large number (many thousands) of digital image files which over the last 14 years have been labelled and filed very poorly. I am now seeking to sort them out. Is there a way to see all the images in a folder structure? So the situation is thus, I have a folder tree with subfolders and subfolders of subfolders etc.. Is there a view where I can see all the images together without having to trawl through the endless subfolders.
I know that iPhoto provides this but I don't have enough space to import all my images into a single new instance of iPhoto (I am try to address the space problem separately), whilst I sort that out I would like to be able to browse all the images that are in one folder structure (there are many folder structures on several drives) at a time.
Thanks
M

Thanks for your help.
I have a 2.5GHz Core i5 with 12GB ram and I'm running OS X 10.7.2
I intend to upgrade to 16GB ram in the next couple of months but could do this now if I necessary.
What I have done since I posted is to clear one of the (300GB) external drives, set up an instance of iPhoto on it and I am currently importing 36,000 images (mainly RAW) as I type. It could take a while
This import is the first installment - there are probably twice as many images spread across all my five external drives.
I know I have been inexcusably remiss with my housekeeping but only recently changed to a Mac and on my previous PC's everything was so hard and slow that it was easier not to bother, now I need to sort it all out so that I can make full of use of my incredible iMac and the brilliant software.
I am hoping that I will have enough ram to make it worthwhile - but happy to upgrade sooner if I must.
Hopefully iPhoto will also recognise duplicates which is my other problem.
M

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