Thumbnails do not link properly to original file

The following has been happening to me for a long time now (through previous system software, previous versions of iPhoto). I finally have gotten fed up and would like some help.
When I drag a photo (from a directory in a second internal drive) into the Photos Library or directly into an album, it imports fine - thumbnail is there, etc. But when I double click the file, it says:
"Alert: The photo “P0000273.JPG” could not be opened, because the original item cannot be found."
I think this has something to do with the way I load photos into my Mac. I take the card out of the camera and put it into a card reader. The card reader shows up as a drive on my desktop, then I move the photos from there onto my internal drive. When I drag the photos into iPhoto, I drag them from the location on my internal drive, but somehow I think it thinks that they are still on the card reader, and because the card is usually not in the reader, it cannot find the file.
I have been dealing with this by manually finding the file that matches the thumbnail, since my iPhoto album organization mirrors the folder organization on my hard drive. I want to fix this.

Thanks. Now I can see where these shortcuts are pointing to. They are not pointing to the camera card like I thought, they are pointing to a wrong name for the internal hard drive that the original pix are located on. I am not totally sure, but I dont think I ever titled the volume by that name (it is close to but not the same as the current name). I am a little puzzled about this. I am going to try reimporting these pix to a sample album and see if that fixes the problem (ie, the aliases in the iPhoto library point to the correct volume). If that works, I will have to delete all pictures from my iPhoto Library, and then reimport them into the appropriate albums, right?
I just tried importing. Now this is really screwed up. Immediately upon importing a photo I got the message: "The volume for [name of photo] cannot be found. Insert the disk or connect to the server volume and wait for it to appear on the desktop, then try again." That is ridiculous, the drive is sitting right on my desktop; I just dragged a photo from it into iPhoto.
By the way, the drive I am dragging from is a partition of an internal drive, but of course it functions as a normal drive and shows up on the destktop as such, etc.
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