Iphoto duplicates and photostream issues?

I suddenly have 8 copies of most of the pictures in my photo library (even those that were taken on a separate camera and imported) and about 20 of those in my photostream from my iPhone. My Mac Book Pro is struggling under the weight of 56000 photos! Where have I gone wrong?

What version of iPhoto are you running and what system?  When did these duplicate appear?
Your best solution would be to restore the backup copy of the library that was made just before this problem occurred
OT

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