Switching from iPhoto 08 to Lightroom 1.3

Hello,
Im a new-comer to both photography and Lightroom and even to Apple, so please bear with me.
I have about 6k pictures that I dumped onto my newer iMac OS X v10.4 from various other old computers. There are many duplicates and bad pictures. There is no organization whatsoever. I imported all the pictures to iPhoto 08 before I decided to use Lightroom 1.3. Ive done very little work on them in iPhoto except that there are some newer pictures that are only in the iPhoto library that I need to access.
What I want to do now is import all my old pictures into Lightroom, and get my new pictures out of the iPhoto library. I also want to free up as much room as I can on my hard drive, so obviously I dont want all my pictures duplicated all over. So here is what I am thinking about doing:
1. Clean up my picture folders as much as I can without spending a huge amount of time on it.
2. Import into LR using the Copy Photos to a New Location option so I have a back up
3. Export my newer pictures from iPhoto to folder so I can import those
4. Organize and fix everything in LR till Im satisfied all is good
5. Delete the original pictures from my hard drive using finder
6. Delete all the pictures from iPhoto (will this really delete them and free up space or does still save the original?)
Am I on the right track? Do you have any tips or suggestion for me?
Thank you very much!

Sus-
Sounds right to me. If you really want to delete everything iPhoto, do so in the Finder, and trash the top folder. I did that, then re-ran iPhoto, and use it occasionally for smallish jpegs.
The only thing I didn't see was something like "backup LR catalog and images once I've culled, sorted, keyworded, etc. in LR".

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