IPhoto 11 - thumbnails and photos

I recently purchased the MacBook Retina Pro, and have successfully imported my iPhotos from my old MacBook (circa 2008) to the iPhoto 11, v. 9.5.
However, a few photos in some of my most recent events show up only as thumbnails. When I look at the photo info, they show up as sized less than 1MB, although all my other photos are 2+ MB. I have rebuilt the Library in the iPhoto Library Manager, and while the photos show up as normal size in the Manager, they still do not show up as full-size photos in iPhoto.
I am now in Day 6 of trying to figure this out, and feeling more than a little frustrated, primarily because everything else has come through okay, except for a handful of thumbnails, which stubbornly refuse to become real photos.
I have even tried copying them manually into iPhoto, from a USB stick, but that didn't work either.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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