Recovered photos upon opening iPhoto

Every time we launch iPhoto we get a  pop up that says:
"27 photos have been found in the iPhoto Library that were not imported. Would you like to import them?"
If you hit no, another pop up comes up saying it saves them to a recovered file, and then you have to go throught it again (twice).. if you hit yes, it asks you once more and again saves it to a recovered file also.. Ive tried openening the recovered file to see whats in there but theres nothing.. It does it every time you open the app- no matter how many time a day you open it or what option you choose.. it has been doing this for months for no apparent reason.. Does anyone know how I can stop this?
Im using iPhoto "11 Version 9.4.3 on a  Mac OS.X 10.7.5
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A finder window will open with the Library exposed.
Look there for a Folder called 'Import' or 'Importing'.
Drag it to the Desktop. Make no other changes. Start iPhoto. Does that help?
If it does then look inside that folder on your desktop. Does it contain anything you want? If not you can trash the folder.

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