IPhoto Library in a mess....how to organize?

Hi,
I have been putting this off for a couple of years, time to deal with the mess. I have the latest iPhoto 6.0.2, what I need to do is clean out all the doubles, triples and misfiled photos. I have "Modified" "Originals" and I believe they are misfiled. In my Source list I have 17.02GB on the disk, on the "Originals" file I have 8.06 and the "Modified" comes in at 7.71GB.
Pictures>iPhoto Library
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
AlbumData.xml
Data
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Dir.data
Import
iPhoto.ipspot
iPhotoLock.data
iPod Photo Cache
Library.data
Library.iPhoto
Library6.iPhoto
Modified
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Originals
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Thumb32Segment.data
Thumb64Segment.data
ThumbJPGSegment.data
Does all this seem right? Is there a better, cleaner way to organize it all?
I wonder if simply deleating everything other than the originals might clean things up? Everyone has a pack-rat iPhoto problem, only limited my HD space. Deal with it later, later has come.
Thanks for the help, S.

ShakuZen:
It appears you're conversion to V6 possibly did not include all of the originals.
You're iPhoto library folder should look like this. Those year folders outside of the Originals, Modified and Data folders were left over from iPhoto 5. You can move them to the desktop and check to see if they contain any full sized image files. If so then you can assemble them in a new folder and import to get your library back to include all of your photos.
Duplicate Annihilator can cull out duplicates in an iPhoto 6 library (but not those in the carryover folders if there are duplicates in them).
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