IPhoto '08 creating modified files automatically?

I want to free up hard drive space. I don't use iPhoto to alter images, so I do not understand why modified images are self-creating. I am also not touching any actual image files (outside of iPhoto) aside from looking at them.
1. I open iPhoto Library with "Show Package Contents" and open up two Finder windows, one with Modified, and one with Original. For example, I'll locate a modified photo in "2009 > Apr 18, 2009 > DSC_8157.jpg"
2. I find the same photo in the Originals folder and compare the two. Example: Original file is 4.8 MB. Modified file is 5.2 MB. Visual inspection of both images leads me to believe they are both the same.
3. The one thing I have noticed is all modified images are vertical (I rotated the camera when I photographed them).
4. In iPhoto, I select the photo, right-click, and choose "Revert to original". I click "OK" when the warning pops up, and the file is apparently restored. Looking at the Finder windows, I see the file deleted. But it returns shortly thereafter.
So, in writing this, I discovered the answer to my question: it must be the vertical images that are being modified. But this is essentially duplicating the image (in a larger size, for some reason) and filling up my hard drive.
Is there nothing I can do?

On your camera you have the option to auto rotate images set so when iPhoto sees them it does what you ask which crtes a modified version
You can trun the auto rotate off on your camera to avoid this - otherwise there is nothing you can do
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By larger I mean file size. Say the original (I use that word loosely since it's not my original but it's the only original iPhoto knows exists) is 250kb the modifies file might be 950kb.
It looks like the portrait photos all have a modified file but it's not exclusively the portrait pictures that have that. Some of the landscape photos have them as well. When I say revert back to original the color of the photo changes slightly. It's like iphoto has done modifications in the color as well (I have done that in Lightroom and since it is a published service maybe iphoto can sense that it has been changed).
There is no flags anywhere so not sure what you mean by that.
When I say the picture has been cut to 2/3 I mean that the left 1/3 of the picture has been cut out. Very strange. When I press revert to original, it goes back to what it should be.
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