IPhoto library chaos after importing from eksternal hard drive

Hi
I just got my first Mac Book pro and started to import my 15.000 photos which are stored on a consumer NAS-disk by via old windows PC. 
The pictures are originally organized in folder by year and months.
The result is absolutely chaos.....  The number of pictures is quadrupled.
After (a looong time) I get one "event"-folder where I see my original files and one event (or folder?) named with a bunch of letter and numbers, ( ie "7gdaskk5klj3mjll54kj4lk6j4k4") where the same pictures are stored THREE times. It seems to be one version as the original, one low-resolution and one version with a different aspect or view.
It's absolutely impossible to navigate through all this. I thought managing pictures was one of the advantages with Mac - I am not sure any longer
Am I doing something wrong or is there a trick that can streamline my picture library?
I have tried both to import with and without copying pictures to library. Same result.
BR
Andre

The result is absolutely chaos.....  The number of pictures is quadrupled.
After (a looong time) I get one "event"-folder where I see my original files and one event (or folder?) named with a bunch of letter and numbers, ( ie "7gdaskk5klj3mjll54kj4lk6j4k4") where the same pictures are stored THREE times. It seems to be one version as the original, one low-resolution and one version with a different aspect or view.
It's absolutely impossible to navigate through all this. I thought managing pictures was one of the advantages with Mac - I am not sure any longer
How are you browsing your imported photos? This looks like you were browsing the iPhoto library using the Finder and not using iPhoto's user interface in the main application window.
When iPhoto imports photos it will store them in the iPhoto library and also additional files to speed up the browsing. It will create a preview of the edited version to share with the Media browser and a thumbnail to be used in the browser. All these files will be stored in subfolders of the library with cryptic names. Browse your photos using iPhoto's interface and don't access them directly in the Finder. You are risking to corrupt the library this way. After all, it is iPhoto's job to manage and to retrieve the photos for you.

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