IPhoto 8 and Raw

Hi everyone,
I recently took 600+ Raw photos (Nikon D70...roughly 3.85 gig of pictures)and imported them into iPhoto 8 as RAW photos.
I understand that it (iPhoto 8) automatically converts them into jpegs and leaves the raw photos untouched, but it is REALLY bogging down my system.
What I would like to know is this...as iPhoto has already converted the RAW photos to jpegs, and that is what I am working on in iPhoto (jpegs, NOT RAW), can I simply burn a CD with all of the jpegs that are in iphoto, delete all of those photos from iphoto, and then go through and Delete all of the original RAW images (I already have them backed up on a DVD) and then reimport just the jpegs into iphoto?
My goal is to delete all of the RAW photos from the computer, and leave only jpegs in iPhoto. If I ever need to use the RAW photos...for example if I am editing them in PS, I can just put the DVD in and pull it from there.
Also, is there a way for me to do this in the future...i.e. use iPhoto to convert the RAWS to jpegs, and only import them...not to import the RAW photos?
I'm guessing that the RAW images are what is bogging down iphoto, not the number of pictures (I have about 5,000 in iphoto already.)
Thanks,
Tom

Setup iPhoto to use Photoshop as the editor of choice in iPhoto's General preferences pane. Next, go to iPhoto's Advanced preference pane and check to the box "Use RAW when editing in external editor". Now you don't have to find the RAW file and move it to the desktop to edit. HOWEVER, you will have to save the edited file on the Desktop and import as a new photo.
If you occasionally just want to use PS to edit the jpg version see the following:
Using Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
1 - select Photoshop as your editor of choice in iPhoto's General Preference Section's under the "Edit photo:" menu.
2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.
3 - however, if you get the navigation window that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
If you want to use both iPhoto's editing mode and PS without having to go back and forth to the Preference pane, once you've selected PS as your editor of choice, reset the Preferences back to "Open in main window". That will let you either edit in iPhoto (double click on the thumbnail) or in PS (Control-click on the thumbnail and seledt "Edit in external editor" in the Contextual menu). This way you get the best of both worlds

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