Photos duplicating upon import

After upgrading to iPhoto 5 recently, all my pix have begun to duplicate upon import. Why is this and how can i stop it?

when I first used my digital camera and was learning how to put them in IPhoto, in my ignorance I put the same photos on three different times while was adding new photos. I hadn't deleted the older ones from my camera. These duplicated photos are from a trip and there are too many to sort out the ones that may or may not be tripled. So my idea (crazy though it might be) was to gather them all in an album so the sorting out would not include all the rest of my pictures in the album which are considerable.

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