I'm struggling to find a way to find and delete duplicate images

Hi,
I recently upgraded to a newer iMac and Aperture 2 to handle my growing library of photos. Since I started college two years ago, I've taken close to 20,000 images. I stored and organized those as I always had with my others in iPhoto. Now when I imported my iPhoto library (~30,000 images) into Aperture, I made sure to click the "do not import duplicates" box. However, as I scrolled through the library, just checking, I came across what has to be several hundred duplicate images that were created whenever I rotated my photos in iPhoto.
Strange thing is, it didn't happen with my new images. These are all old jpeg images.
I'm not sure (and I doubt) if it has anything to do with the new photos being in RAW format, but regardless, it's taking up a lot of space.
Is there a way to search for and delete these duplicates? I noticed it made a stack for each image with the original and the rotated version, if that means anything.
Just something to enter in the search box or whatever to bring them all up and delete them would be great, because I've been trying forever and asking around and haven't found a solution.
One other small question: If I've backed up my Aperture library using Time Machine, does it make any sense to make a Vault on another (or the same) drive?
Thanks in Advance,
Chris

Unfortunately iWeb cannot read or import previously published files, only generate them. You'll have to recreate your site from scratch.
However, Chapter 2.3 on the iWeb FAQ.org site has tips on using some of the existing files, image, audio, video, etc., from the published site in the recreation of the site.
OT

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