IPhoto Library contains system pictures.

Question

I've been helping a FOAF make the switch to Apple and everything's gone smoothly except for one thing.
System icons and pictures keep appearing in iPhoto as pictures. I removed them once with great trepidation and suffered no ill effects. They are, however, back. I'm not on the machine, nor can I be immediately, but I do know that it's iPhoto 6 with a fully patched version of Tiger.
Any ideas as to what to do, why this is happening, and how to prevent it?

Answer 1

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. How did the
switcher import his pictures into iPhoto? How did
you remove them the first time, thru the Finder or by
deleting them in iPhoto by dragging to the iPhoto
trash bin and emptying the trash with the
iPhoto->Empty Trash menu option?
I deleted them through iPhoto. I figured that iPhoto had somehow imported all the system stuff into its own library (smart, ain't I?) and that removing it from the iPhoto library itself would get the job done without trashing all the actual images. It seemed to work.
There's no way he should be getting the system icons
in the library unless he dragged the entire HD or the
System folder into the open iPhoto window.
That's what I can figure. I'm going to have to drive on out and see what she did to cause this. I was just hoping that there was a non-user related cause for this. Thanks!
Can you get some more details on the creation of the
library for us?
4 boys in the house, all < 14 years old. I think that might be it.