Managing large nmbers of photos

I need some of your expert advice on using iPhoto 08 and Aperture 1.5. Scenario- one iMac 20 with 1 gig, USB 360 gig external hard drive. One user and two very prolific shooters. We currently have over 23K images taking up 73 gig in iPhoto 08. Have a couple of hundred images in Aperture. I really have not spent a lot of time learning this program.
I currently upload all new images to iPhoto from two cameras. No problem with the transfers. I sometimes shoot some Nikon raw images. Less than 10%. Aperture and iPhoto handle them very well.
Would it be more advantageous to up load all the images to a single file and have the two programs reference them? Is this possible in iPhoto I know it can be done in Aperture. Or is it better to upload into Aperture and have iPhoto look in the Aperture library for individual photos for activities that Aperture cannot support?

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We've been using iPhoto since the beginning, and I've started to use Aperture and the other shooter is more comfortable in iPhoto.
I upload everything to iPhoto and reference them in Aperture. Why this way around?
1. The bigger investment is in iPhoto, we ARE using it, we MAY move over to Aperture
2. Aperture is much better at working with referenced files that iPhoto is. Including - if we move entirely to Aperture - turning those reference file to managed ones. You cannot do that with iPhoto.
3. The Aperture library is not easy to reference from anywhere - including iPhoto. Aperture has the ability to import the iPhoto library, including Albums, Rolls, Keywords etc.
Regards
TD

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