Mass duplicates in iphoto vers 7, its a mess

hello
somehow, after installing leopard and doing a get all images, it installed 23,000+ plus photos. i have infinate duplictates, it also brought in all the thumbs as actual images. all the dates are wrong, everything is so scattered, ive tried going in and deleting images one by one but its taking forever, and sometimes, there will be a "set" then a duplicate set will be many "folders" down and thus its practically impossible to keep scrolling up and down to double check what should and should not be deleted. i cant just delete all images in the iphoto cuase i assume all wiill be lost. i know i tunes has a show duplicates feature, but i do not see anything like this in iphoto ( iahe iphoto 08 vers 7 by the way). is there some kinda way i can match up images or sometghing anything to make eliminating the infoante duplicates and erroneous thumbnails from showing up as part of my library?
i am guessing that my actual photo count showul be around 5000. also, this is obviously consuming valuable HD space.
any help or thoughts will be much appreciated. i am sorry i winded on, but i wanted to be clear in my explanation.
also, anyone else ever had this? and also, i promise to post my solution / experince if i get one.
thanks, wayne

brie fly
thanks for responding. its actually alonger stiry than that, i had inherited an old powerbook, there were tow accounts on it, somehow when i opned i photo on that machine, it brought in all the images. i then got a new powerbook, migrated the account and all them photos followed over. i recnetly did a clean install of osx11, so as to try to clear up the mess, i did a back up opf all my files and then copied them over one set at a time, when i did iphoto all the images came over. they are a mess. it is only iphotos, not photos from all over my machine/s. photos originally downloaded form my camera, no where else. i just have zillions of copies of single images and the extra irritating thing is that even the thumbs are now showing as images in the library. its photos going back to 2001, my kids growing up and stuff, i cant just delete thems.

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