IPhoto 11 and one event with 15,000+ photos - help

I am new to Mac, this is my first, but long time PC users (28 years)... so it is a learning curve. My photos were/are on an external hard drive, (due to last computer failure) and undamaged.
I only got my iMac 27 i5 on Friday, and have been importing them. The first time the programme ran - I probably foolishly imported a year's photos in one go (I have since realised the error after it froze).... and when I finally got out of the mess, I discovered I have one event with over 15,000 photographs in.
I have since been importing all my others folder by folder, as opposed to year by year - they go back to 1998.... so a lot in total.
My questions -
1 I have now discovered how to split the events, but it is so time consuming, with so many photos, is there by any chance an easier way.
and whilst I am posting perhaps someone knows how to get around this as well:
2 In Faces, I have gone through - so far - over 5,000 and written in names, but it isn't really very good at recognition, and I wonder whether it is worth carrying on with it - it shows only 2 pictures at a time, go to full screen and all it shows is around 8 - is there any way I can get a load up in one go of the 'same person' - or the computer thinks is the same, and do them in a batch
Thanks for any input, it is appreciated.
Carol

I deleted the images of 15k+ and then set about sorting out the duplicates, triplicates and quadruplet folders it seems to have created.... took me ages, and I finally did that.
I had also purchased the Duplicate Annihilator as recommended in another similar thread, but that was going to take almost 4 days, hence I decided that I didn't have time for that to sort it out anyway, so I have done it myself this morning.
I was then asked to rebuild the database, so I set that going at just before 1300 (just over 2 hours ago), I came up from lunch and it was showing 97%.... and 80 mins it is still 97%
I am checking the activity monitor and it shows that it seems to be doing something, ie the nmber of threads stays at 26 but the %CPU keeps chaning, from 101.6 to 101.7 - so is it actually doing anything....iphoto has a black sectin with the circle thing going around in the centre....nothing else showing on the screen... actually watching it for the last minute or so and nothing is happening ... so is it working....
What should I do...
TBH I thought this would all be straightforward, and beginning to regret my choice of computer.... all I can say is it looks great, but isn't working as it should....
On top of that Time Machine has also now told me I need to start a new back-up but no idea where to find start a new back-up.... googling, and using spotlight hasn't brought up the answer yet
Still on 97%
Carol

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