IPhoto copying unedited pictures into modified folder!

Hi everybody!
recently I've noticed the size of my iPhoto library growing without me adding any photos, so I checked the folders and discovered that whole events had been copied into the modified folder without me even having edited them!
I marked all those pictures and clicked on "back to original", but when I checked the modified folder again, I could watch while the same pictured were being copied in there again!!
Does anyone else have this problem and if yes, how can it be stopped?
Thanks in advance,
Phil

First try deleting the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your User/Library/Preferences folder. Launch iPhoto and try importing again.
NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding the the Option key. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
Next, if necessary, log into another user account on your Mac, launch iPhoto and import some test images to see if the situation is repeated. If so then a reinstall of iPhoto is warranted. To do so you'll have to first delete the current application and all files with "iPhoto" in the file name with either a .PKG or .BOM extension that reside in the HD/Library/Receipts folder, reinstall iPhoto from the disk it came on and reapply the latest updaters.
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