Serious Problem with thumbs and duplicates

To make a long story short, I made a complete backup of my computer to an external hard drive. I erased my entire computer and reinstalled the system.
When I tried importing my iPhoto library, for some reason I now have three versions of every photo. I have 24,000 photos when before I had 8,000. For every photo there are two duplicates and one thumbnail. What is weird is that the duplicates are not even the same size. They are close, say one is 3.6MB, the other is 3MB.
So somewhere I messed up big time. While looking through the photos and realizing that I had 3 of each I started deleting the files that were around 20-30k. I had no idea why they were there. Now I realize that they were the thumbnails....duh
But since I have so many I've only thrown away about 1000 thumbnails. And gave up.
How in the heck do I get my iPhoto environment back to the way it was?
Signed, stupid iPhoto user.

You do not import iPhoto libraries - you place them in the pictures folder and launch iPhoto and it opens them - the iPhoto library is a database and contains ups to three different versions of each photo - iPhoto knows what is what by using the database files
so just drag the iPhoto library from your backup to the pictures folder and launch iPhoto
LN

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