How do I consolidate all of my photos to one location

I have been using iPhoto 6 on my MBP and had it reference all of my photos on an external harddrive. Then I started importing new photos directly from my camera, and I believe it saved them on the my local hard drive somewhere. So now I believe I have original photos in two places.
I am getting a new iMac this week with iPhoto 8 on it, is there away I can prepare for it by consolidating all of my photos into on location and not loose all of my iPhoto albums and tags?
Second question, should I just in the future pull the photos off to a folder from my camera and then import them into iPhoto?

Natalie
What exactly is an "alias" in the context of iPhoto? What is the usefulness of this?
By default, iPhoto manages the files when they are imported - they are copied to the iPhoto Library. However, some people prefer to manage the files themselves, so along the way it became possible for iPhoto to reference files - that is not copy them to the iPhoto Library on import. (iPhoto Preferences -> Advanced -> Uncheck 'Copy Files...') In this scenario, instead of having picture file in iPhoto Library Folder / Originals / you have an alias pointing to the actual file.
The down side of this is that importing and deleting files become multistep operations instead of single step ones, plus - and more importantly, migrating to an external HD or a new computer can be much more complex. There are a couple of open threads on the forum right now from folks trying find a simple way to change to a managed library from a referenced one. There is no such way. I have yet to see a good reason to run an iPhoto Library in referenced mode unless you're using more than one Photo organiser.
Also, I was getting quite familiar and comfortable with the last version of iPhoto, and I'm now all screwed up with iPhoto 8. Why can I not manually arange photos within the event folders? I used to be able to drag them to the placement that I most desired in a second. Now, the best I can do is to take an seemingly unnecessary amount of time to individually "flag" photos, move them to different events, unflag them, and start all over. Is there any way to allow for manual drag and drop within "events"?
Events are a really crude form of organisation. They are strictly based on time. Change to Photos view and go View -> Event Titles: Now you can easily drag and drop between events and go View -> Sort Photos -> Manually
Lastly, I never quite got my head fully wrapped around the differentiation among folders, smartfolders, and albums.
An album is a collection of pics that you create - by drag and drop, for instance: My Cat Pictures
A Smart Album is an album created by iPhoto to match instructions you give: (File -> New Smart Album -> You can see the possible criterea). For instance, when I import pics I keyword them on a Who, What, Where basis. (The When is recorded with the pic automatically). Now When I tag a pic with my daughter's name it's added automatically to the Smart Album (Keyword > Is > My daughter's Name)
There are no Smart Folders in iPhoto.
A Folder is a collection of Albums, both or either 'dumb' and smart. (Folder: My Pets contains Album My Cat Pictures, My Dog Pictures)
Regards
TD

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