Photos - import sometimes re-imports (duplicates) old imports

I was on vacation for a week. Every day or two, I'd put the same SD card into the Camera Connector so the iPad would import the new photos; I was NOT deleting them after import. Sometimes this worked fine - it would ask about importing the duplicate photos, and I'd say no so it would only add the new ones. At least twice, though, it apparently decided that every photo was new, so "Last Import" contained everything, and "All Imported" now has 3 copies of the early photos, 2 of the middle ones, and the expected 1 copy of the last bunch. I haven't tried to isolate exactly what might be going on, but the iPad and the camera were the only devices - the SD card was NOT connected to a netbook, notebook, desktop, etc. during the trip.

iBack up your iPhoto library, Depress and hold the option (alt) and command keys and launch iPhoto - rebuild your iPhoto library
LN

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I tried to re-import with the same result.
What's the best way to mitigate this?
How exactly did you do that?
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Note: There now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

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