Images of or from websites autosaving to iPhoto

How can we stop webpages being saved as images to my gf's iPhoto library? They are stored as an Event entitled "Webpage Previews" in Photos which we did not create. Another event is called "Mail Downloads". Yet another is "Images" another "file" and even one called "Cache" which also appears in the sidebar with the label "Hold". They all contain at least one image, some many dozens.
It is almost as if some app operates in the background and collects the images of every website she visits, as well as the images from each website she visits or attachments she receives by email. This is not supposed to happen.
The MacBook runs Leopard 10.5.7 with iPhoto 08 v7.0 as the main photo app. She also has the Canon software for her Canon Ixus 95iS compact on board. Her Safari is v 4.02.
iPhoto 08 was originally running on Tiger, but after we upgraded to Leopard using a clean install and installed iLife 08 after Leopard, she dragged the iPhoto library from the Carbon Copy CLone backup of Tiger including the iPhoto 08 Library previously installed. This library had been copied using Carbon Copy Cloner onto an Ext HDD from where it was dragged back onto the MacBook after a clean install (I didn't do that job, it was done by a long term Apple expert).
Any ideas what is happening? Even more important, how can we make it stop?
TIA

These are clearly the folders that have the non-deletable files in. If we drag these folders from their location to the Library so they (hopefully) can be deleted using the Safari Reset command, will this muck up the iPhoto database indexing?
Move those and you will trash your Library.
Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
I’m not sure how the link you provide has anything to do with the core issue here - which is why iPhoto should import these images in the first place. Afters all, I’m using Safari 4 and don’t have this issue.
To the issue of trashing the images:
To trash an Image you must be in the Library - either Events or Photos view and drag an image to the iPhoto trash, and empty it. If you’re in an album, dragging a pic to the trash will simply remove it from the Album.
Can you confirm that how you’ve been trashing images?
Regards
TD

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