IPhoto is eating my photo's

I have used iPhoto since switching to the Mac platform in 2006. Anyway I just recently purchased iLife 2009. I decided I wanted to clean up our photo's and so I decided to create a new library and bring in the old photo's an Event at a time. We have an Event from a trip to Disneyland and when I looked at them they were all fuzzy and grainy. I looked at the resolution and they were 640x480!! Ah, there are major important photo's! Anyway I know how to go into the library and went to the year/event and the photo's there were ALL 640x480!! ***!! Why is iPhoto changing the resolution on my photo's and deleteing the originals! I have backups on my PC, but what is iPhoto doing and what do I need to do so it won't do it again?!? I have found other events that are the same way, I have several camera's and the lowest rez any of them have is my iPhone. Any help would be great.

I created new by holding down the option key and clicking the create new library button. Oh I am storing my library on a Time Capsule I have. I come from Windows and the iPhoto library had a lot of duplicates so this is why I decided to create a new library.
The iPhoto library does not have any duplicates unless you have imported duplicates into it - it does have two or three versions of each photo - these are not duplicates and must not be disturbed - doing so will corrupt the iPhoto library and cause data loss
When you import a photo it is copies without modification into the originals folder (by default - there is a preference to change this but it is strongly recommended that you do not change it) and a small thumbnail is created and places in the datafolder - when you make any modification a modified version is created and placed in the modified folder
I was bringing the photo's out of the old library and putting them into folders on my desktop, then go into the new library and importing.
again it you used the originals then those are exact copies of what was imported into iPhoto - if you used the modified or the data then they are no the original
I also know how to enter the iPhoto library manually and went into the Originals folder and found my event and the pictures in it were altered to the smaller resolution. From other sources I know this is the folder that should never change.
It is recommended that you do not go into your iPhoto library - it has no user serviceable parts and s you are finding when you do it is easy to lose data - except in very rare situations there is no reason to every go into the iPhoto library
LN

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It does. You must have a damaged library. You say you upgraded to iPhoto 9 (11). What warning does iPhoto give you when you try to use it?
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You have a corrupted database, Better off trying to fix it.
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
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Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
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Have you upgraded to iPhoto 9.6 for compatibility with Yosemite? If not, try that first.
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Try first to rebuild your iPhoto Library:
If you do not have a current backup of the iPhoto library, make a copy of the library, but do not overwrite any previous backup.
Launch iPhoto with the ⌥⌘-key combination (option-command) held down.
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Can you now see your photos again?
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Try the rebuild to recover more lost photos.
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