IPhoto New Albums Adding unwanted photos

I have the new iPhoto 11' and each time I create a new album, random photos from my iPhoto library are added into the newly created album...any help on why?
Thanks,

When I transferred all of my photos onto my MacBook and updated iPhoto '11 it duped most of the Events regardless if they were already on the MacBook.
How did you do this? Did you import an old library into the new one - you never do that - it causes massive duplication and does not keep your metadata --- the correct method is to copy the old library to the pictures folder of the new computer (assuming your do not have a working iPhoto library there) and launch iPhoto and let it convert the old library
In addition to that it started 'adding' just the faces as additional photos to the Events and Albums. I have a few thousand photos but it ended up transferring over 65,000 photos (mostly dupes). Very annoying. I think I am going to back everything out and start over.
That probably is the solution - doing it as outlined above
LNB

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