How to consolidate, iPhoto photos IN library and photos outside of library but visible in iPhoto

Hi guys,
What follow below is the whole explanation of how I got into the mess I am in. but what I want to know is:
How can I 'fully' import Photos , that I have previously imported to iPhoto using the "import: copy items to the iphoto library" unticked.
It not really feasable to locate all the individual events that are imported as a link , deleted them , and re-import the originals because there are hundreds and they are not ordered.
I need a way of doing this on mass, without creating hundreds of duplicates.
I need some sort of a function that says, if not in the library, the find the original and import it.
once that has been done, iPhoto library consolidated and tydied up, I will then be confident about backing it all up , either remotely or on a second hard drive.
The Story :
I have a mac book air 2008 , and I am using iPhoto 09, (vs 8.1.2)
I started an iphoto library on the internal hard drive. this was going fine , until I conviced the wife to upload all of her old picture from the PC into the iphoto library also.
All of a sudden the library was pushing 15GB and on my little 60 GB HD this was starting to eat up all the space on the hard drive.
So , I add an External hardrive to act as over flow, but, ideally I didn't want to move the iphoto library onto the external harddrive. my thinking was that if the library file remains on the Internal HD , I will be able to organise the pics and at least view thumb nails without connecting the hard drive.
So , any new additional photos have now been placed on the external hard drive , but only imported to iPhoto using the "import: copy items to the iphoto library" unticked, so that the thumbnails and meta data would be in the iphoto library on my internal HD and the actual photos would be on the external hard drive.
Brilliant....
Except , space continued to become a problem , so I moved the iPhoto library onto the same harddrive anyway.
Not the end of the world I guess...
Except! now I am looking at backing up my entire iPhoto library to an online storage service, (drop box , or google drive) , because I am in the extremely procarios possition of having only 1 copy of all of our pictures!
I am aware that if I back up my iPhoto library (the iPhoto file) , that will not back up the associated files that are connected but not imported into the library.
I haven't tried this , but I suspect that even if I purchase a regular back up drive, and move all pictures and iphoto library onto the new hard drive, I may still have issues with the iPhoto library trying to locate the original picture on the original drive, rather than the copies that are stored onto the new back up drive.
I say this because I am already having error messages from iPhoto telling me it cannot locate the original...
Sorry for the massive post.
Any help will be extremely welcome!

Basically you need the photos available a tthe path the they had when they were imported, check the option to copy imported items to the iPhoto library and then you use the iplm rebuild -
Photo Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - can rebuild a referenced library into a managed library but only if the original photos are accessable via the path in iPhoto
Or if you have iPhoto '11 9.4.2 and Aperture 3.3 or newer you can use Aperture to reconnect the photos
LN

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