Iphoto 09: downloads, game screencaps saving in iphoto help to stop

I have a new mac book pro with iphoto 09 up to date.
I am so used to the older iphoto without "events" so it is taking me time to actually use it.
Today I started to go through some photos I uploaded weeks ago and discovered somehow throughout the photos there are random photos, some seem to be screencaps I'd say of pages we have visited, some are photos of downloads whether they are photos or scans etc and some are off the desktop of different pdfs etc and some were photos taken with photobooth. These were in different 'events' named desktop, downloads etc. Then there were also photos of different text font types etc all the way through and little pictures of things like the Skype 'S'.
I have no idea how they got there or how to turn it off! I am not the only one using this computer but none of us know how this happened.
Googling didn't seem to bring the usual quick answer.
Just want to stop it so that not all things sitting on desktop etc end up saved in iphoto.
Thanks
Message was edited by: pricamacbook

For some reason this seems to happen on the initial import sometimes
If you have not added a bunch of new photos to iphoto just quit, drag the iPhoto library to the desktop and launch iPhoto creating a new library and import your photos again - if that all works this time then trash the iPhoto library on the desktop
LN

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