Possible for iPhoto to remove referenced Aperture previews that I deleted?

Maybe I've already gone down the wrong path here, but I've been using Aperture until iPhoto 09. I really want to face and geo tag my photos, so I'm sharing my Aperture previews with iPhoto.
Last night, I decided to clean out a lot of my junk shots because I shoot RAW and am running out of space. I figured iPhoto would be smart enough to auto-remove those files from the library, but... of course it did not.
Now, I have hundreds of photos scattered across multiple events that are gone. iPhoto thinks they're still there, still showing the small icon for each image. When it tries to reference the bigger version, I get the popup saying that it can't locate the original.
Any suggestions on how to clean up this mess? I know I could just delete the iPhoto library and start over, but I've already spent HOURS face tagging, and would hate to lose all of that information.
Thanks!

I find this to be a huge flaw in iphoto. I deleted a large group of original duplicate thumbnails of some pics that I had that iphoto had imported. Now iphoto faces in littered with thumbnails of missing pics. It will take hours to manually look for and then delete these entries. If you delete the original pictures on your drive, iphoto should be able to re-index and remove the missing files. It can do this if forced by holding down command option when starting and choosing to rebuild, BUT this does NOT rebuild the 'faces' lists. I had spend allot of time manually selecting a long list of multiple faces lists. Not only that, but when you manually delete these empty faces pictures you have to open each one to see if it then shows "not found" and then close it and then delete the icon to get rid of it. In the main list of pics you can at least hit the delete key on the full size pics as you scroll them. It is very tedious. Now you might say, well just delete the iphoto pics first instead of the originals, but that doesn't work, because there is no sub directory within the "faces" lists to remove in batch. It;'s just a mess to manage and do maintenance on. In short the "faces" lists do NOT have much control or sync once you set them up and tag them manually which severely limits their usefulness.

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