Problems with deleted blank photos in library

A couple of weeks ago I took around 60 images, downloaded them from my camera within the programme as I have with the thousands of others I have previously done. Then I went through and deleted the weaker shots from the library, both raw and jpeg. After I had finished I went to the trash to delete and my computer froze and did not complete the function. When I restarted, all the photos I had deleted were blank white outlined squares in my library that take ages to scroll past and give me a rainbow waiting icon.
I have sinced tried multiple times to delete, but they always crash my iPhoto.
They were not categorised into an album yet, and I have backed up my photos! I have just had a couple of big shoots and have a whole bunch more photos to add to iPhoto but I am weary of doing so until these blank spaces are fixed! They slow down the scrolling of my library a hundred times over.
Everything else in the library is working well.
I can delete them from my library, but when I go to delete them from the trash, the system crashes and when I restart they are back in my library again!
Any ideas?? Would really appreciate knowledge on this subject. It has me stumped!

How about putting all the images (from the trash) back in the library. Then put one in the trash and see if you can empty it. If that doesn't work then the only option I can think of is to create anew library and import your images from the old library. Hopefully iPhoto will not import those ghost images in the trash.
Close iPhoto
Rename your messed up iPhoto Library to "iPhoto Library_old"
Drag this library to your desktop
Hold down the Option key and launch iPhoto
This is the window you will get
Create a new library or choose a library to open
Choose to create a new library
Once this new empty library is open it is time to import the images from your old library
Go to File>add to library
Navigate to the old library on your desktop and highlight it in the window, then click the "open" button.
iPhoto will start importing the images from your old library
This is what to expect:
Your images will be imported in nice dated rolls. (make sure your view is set to sort by rolls to see it) There are a couple of caveats to this. You will get rolls named "Originals" These rolls will contain your video clips and your original images that you had edited. If you had RAW files they would be in those rolls too (I don't do RAW, so I don't know for sure) Delete what you don't want from those rolls. You will also get the jpeg pointer files to your video clips imported. They will just be jpegs and will not point to the video clips anymore as iPhoto made new ones when the clips were imported again. You can delete those. they should be in a roll right next to the newly imported video clips so they are not hard to find. The thumbnail files don't get imported as iPhoto makes new ones when the images are imported.
Once all you images have been imported, check through the library and make sure everything looks ok.
You can now start making your Albums, and do your keywords or any other organizational steps.
You can also delete the old library on the desktop.
It is also a good time to backup this new library to CD/DVD by burning the iPhoto LIbrary folder in the Finder, or copying the iPhoto Library folder to an external drive formatted for Macs, or copying the iPhoto LIbrary folder to an iPod.
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