Iphoto 6 and my HD space ! It's eating it all up !?

Hello. I am trying to free up space on my MBPro as whenever I get down to 5GB HD space it grinds to a slow pace of a glacier. I think the problem lies with Iphoto 6.0.6 and the 13000 photos I had, and that IPhoto always duplicates ORIGINAL photos into in a folder called MODIFIED.
I backed up all my photos on an external drive, deleted all of them from Iphoto and recovered 30gb of space on my HD. I then edited the originals on the ext.drive by name and filed them better in folders for the years they relate to. I then re-imported them to Iphoto. So far so good. They appear in the Iphoto Library folder correctly, not quite as I filed them by year as I guess I photo does something "intelligent" by looking at the date of the photo (modification date) and overrides my filing system by the year in which the photo was taken. OK I can handle that ! At least in Iphoto my listing by ROLL appears with the title I want, not some arbitrary roll number assigned by Iphoto.
BUT THEN... Iphoto goes and duplicates ALL the ORIGINAL photos once again into another "MODIFIED" folder, when I have not used Iphoto to modify a single photo !
Hence I am back to square one - little free HD space and a slow MBPro and duplicates of all my photos in two folders.
Is there a solution to this ?

Hi Larry
Thanks for the reply. But here's the strange thing.
I wanted to start from scratch and make my MAC think that it is importing photos for the first time (as if from my camera, but in this case from my external HD).
ALL my photos including those that have ever been edited, (cropped, rotated, renamed etc) are stored in individual folders on my ExtHD, ready to be imported to Iphoto. All my photos are stored a file for each event - eg: "Wedding", including those I modified together with those originals that I liked that required no editing. Any original photos that I did modify were trashed ages ago after I finished the lengthy selection and filing process on my ExtHD to remove duplicates of the same image in any file.
Given the above, with only the photos I actually want to have in IPhoto waiting on my ExtHD, this is what I did :
(1) Having deleted any and all "PHOTO LIBRARY" folders from my MBPro, I emptied the trash and recuperated 37GB of space.
(2) Then I opened Iphoto, and logically as there's no library, it asks me to CREATE or CHOOSE Library. I decided "CREATE" library and it creates me an empty library in the "Pictures" folder.
(3) From IPhoto I then click FILE>Import to Library, and selected just one file from the many folders from my ExtHD, (eg: "Wedding" that has 192 photos in it) and click IMPORT and wait.
(4) Once imported I go and look in PICTURES>IPhoto Library, and in the ORIGINALS folder are my 192 photos .... BUT then there's also a new MODIFIED folder in which are...10, yes ten, not 192 photos ?!, none of which I have ever modified using Iphoto in this import process and none of which are in fact any different. THIS IS MY PROBLEM
When I actually import my 13000 photos in this manner, about 10000 of them end up duplicated, in a new folder called MODIFIED, BEFORE I've even used Iphoto to do any editing, once again gobbling up my HD space !
Any suggestions ?

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