Perpetually recovering photos in iPhoto.

Ok, so i was importing all my pictures into iPhoto when i first got my laptop and it got through all but about 250 when iPhoto suddenly stopped working. I opened it back up and it finished up the import but never could import 131 pictures. Now, every time i open up iPhoto it says "131 photos have been found in the iPhoto Library that were not imported. Would you like to import them now?" I say yes and it says it cannot import because they are unreadable files and then it proceeds to make a new folder in my pictures folder containing 131 photos. It will do this again every time i open iPhoto and appends the names of the folders (iPhoto Library Recovered Photos_2). If i say no at the error message it merely skips trying and goes straight to making a new folder. How do i make this stop!? I have tried and i dont know what to do. Help me. PLEASE!

Scotty
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Quit i{Photo and GO to your pictures folder and right click (control Click) on the iPhoto Library Package - select show package conbtents - do not change anything there except find the folder named import or importing and drag it to the desktop - launch iPhoto and you will be ok
You can not look at the import (ing) folder and drag any photos you want out of it onto iP{hoto to import them then delete the folder and it contents once you have everything yu want out ot it
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