Replacing photo in the Modified folder with one modified in another editor

First I'd like to thank Terence and Old Toad for getting me this far with my problem. So here are the gory details: I shoot my pictures in the RAW format with a Pentax K-X and then manage & edit them in iPhoto. When iPhoto converts many of the indoor (no flash) pictures, the jpgs are much darker than the .dng pictures from which they were created. In another discussion, I discovered that a camera setting was to blame for the darker jpegs but now I have to go back and fix the pictures I already imported.
If I send the jpeg to Photoshop Elements or another editor, it's still nearly impossible to get the color right. If I send the RAW image, however, I can create a proper jpeg, but then I'm stuck with saving it as a new file and reimporting it. For each picture I fix, I'll have 1 RAW image and the jpeg that iPhoto creates and 2 new jpegs from editing the RAW image in the external editor.
I've read enough discussions to know that as tempting as it is to do, thou shalt not touch the iPhoto Library. That said, is there any way to have iPhoto associate the externally created jpeg with the original RAW file?
Message was edited by: pfgroff

Thanks TD for the suggestion. I made the switch but iPhoto wouldn't pick up the changes. I rebuilt the thumbnails by holding cmd+alt at start-up and that seemed to work until I double-clicked the image. Then I'd see the old darker image I thought I replaced. Even when I look in the finder at the image, the new one is in the Modified folder, but iPhoto is really committed to showing the old one. As there is no clean way to achieve what I'm trying to do, I've resorted to hiding the original so I can keep the raw image. I still have 4 copies for 1 image, but the library at least looks a little cleaner.
Thanks again for your reply.
Message was edited by: pfgroff

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