Keywords and new Iphoto Library

Is there a simple way to delete/remove keywords from the photos in my new library?
For some reason (could be my fault) every photo has the same five keywords, I delete them and then they reappear. I've tried quitting Iphoto, opening the old photo library using Iphoto library manager and re opening and they are still there and I can't seem to shift them. I have tried manually removing them and they go and then come back again. Any thoughts how to fix this I would be very grateful to hear.
I was getting on quite well with the iphoto library manager programme which I learnt about here but this iphoto programme is very odd and I haven't warmed to it at all.

Whatever was going on seems to have stopped by virtue of deleting the keywords that had attached themselves to nearly all the photos in the 'Manage my keywords' Edit screen. I think I had better go and do some reading about iphoto, so far I have been muddling through having updated from a very old version.
The faces thing is most mysterious too. It often says there are two faces and I name one, but then it insists there is a smaller one too. a frame within a frame, that it wants me to name. I tend to ignore these things and hope they will go away.
If there is an issue with the database Terence - thank you for replying by the way - what am I supposed to do then?
kind regards, Joanna

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