Renaming identical filenames in photos -how?

How do I rename photos with identical names in iPhoto 5?
I'm trying to clean up and organize my photos, so I first held down ALT and COMMAND while starting iPhoto which gave me 4 choices to clean up/rebuild stuff, which I did.
When it was all done several images were added to my library. I'm guessing photos that were otherwise buried/hidden from various crashes/forced exits, so what I'm going to do is drag them to the desktop, then drag the ones that I don't have duplicates of back to the iPhoto albums.
The problem is that I'm not able to drag many of those photos to an empty folder on the desktop because their filenames are identical. How do I fix that?

I found this very strange, so I had to check for myself by creating a brand new library (using "libra") and adding 3 RAW images to it. After quitting iPhoto I investigated the new library's folders and sure enough -there were JPGs to be found! Full-size JPGs and thumbnail JPGs. And within a folder named "Originals" I found the RAW image files.
When I take pictures with my camera I shoot RAW and .JPG simultaneously, which means that when importing my memory card into iPhoto I get both.
By copying the library and removing the JPGs from one and RAWs from the other I figured that I would have split things up, but apparently not as from what you say I have double up with JPGs (one being the actual imported JPGs, the other copy being a converted RAW image representing the RAW image).
But if I delete the RAW images from the library, wouldn't the JPGs representing them also be deleted?
I will take your suggestion of importing my memory card's images to the computer's desktop (preferrably in an empty folder of course) instead of directly into iPhoto, then importing just the JPGs into the "JPG library", and the RAW images into a separate "RAW only" library as I've intended by splitting up the existing library into two.
I haven't used my RAWs much so far, but like to keep them as "lossless digital negatives". If I find an image in my JPG library that I would like to have the RAW equivelant of I'll just take note of the filename/date, switch over to the RAW iPhoto library and find it there.
But back to my problems with duplicated files. I don't think the main problem is that I've imported RAWs (and certainly no problem if the JPGs representing the RAWs are deleted along with the deleted RAWs), but rather "leftovers" from times I've had to force-quit iPhoto while importing or otherwise (I assume that iPhoto keeps images that are imported even if the program crashes afterwards, or forced to quit, but possibly messing up the organizing of things).
I say this because the many of the images that showed up after I rebuilt the library etc. had strange names such as "roll 235 -587", and that's definitely not an original photo's file-name as they all start with "IMG_" (both JPGs and RAW).
Another thing is that when I look through some of the iPhoto folders (from the Finder) there are files with very strange looking names. Generic white icons with long number codes as file-names (e.g. "F49B1A72-6B81-11DB-88BB-00145119B97A-11152-0000005623827527").
Could these be corrupt files that I should throw in the trash, then rebuild my iPhoto library (holding down ALT-COMMAND while starting it), or are those files that iPhoto actually needs all the time?
As far as I could see when using iPhoto itself was that these additional images that showed up after rebuilding were photos that I already had from before, and that these were just re-imported, but I need to be 100% sure before I delete anything, and that means manually inspecting each photo. And that's a hard thing to do if I can't copy them to the desktop etc.
I can't be the first one having this problem...
Regarding memory I have 1.5 Gbytes RAM, and usually don't run many applications at once. Seeing how "unresponsive" iPhoto is I usually quit everything else when I use it.
I don't feel like forking out any more cash on newer versions when I haven't yet pushed what I have to its limits and really need something new.
Apple has a way of adding a few "must have" features to every new version of something to attract users to upgrade. Eyecandy or other small enhancements which really don't make much of a difference.
I'll see how much I can get done with iphoto 5 first.

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