Locating unassigned photos in library, finding duplicates

ola,
does anyone know of a script or something available to find unassigned pix in the "photo" library that are not assigned to "folders" or "albums"? and......
i've bought into some clean up software that's supposed to help find duplicate pix in iphoto, but they either crash or don't work............. any solid ideas?
i'd like to sort out stuff before changing to snow leopard.................
thanks
francois

yo terence,
that was quick! i tried dup annihilator a few years ago, but found it a bit disconcerting because it did not give enough? info on stuff deleted?........... or maybe i was impatient?
i recently bought TidyUp! but it crashes 2/3 through the search and support from them suggested " find the troublesome image"???????? in about 160 000 images....... huh? that will take me a lifetime!
also, some black and white images i have in iphoto appears duplexed? together with other stuff when i view them in iphoto but when dragging them to desktop appear normal............ a bit inconvenient............
one remark about iphoto in ilife 09....................... the fa(r)ce recognition really slows down things......... does one need 16 gig and 8 cores to make it run as fast as iphoto ilife 08? ..wish apple had the option to switch out/off face recognition............ or maybe it's to help the FBI and CIA do some underground work? hehehe.......
thanks for the reply.........
francois

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While it doesn't appear to be Aperture-Library aware, here is a tool that may be useful to find duplicates:
http://www.lightandmatter.org/2011/software-reviews/finding-duplicates-use-anti- twin-to-locate-duplicate-or-similar-photos/

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Duplicate Annihilator: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/aperture/duplicateannihilatorapertureediti on.html
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