Want to step up from iPhoto. Recommendations?

I know, it's a little silly to ask for recommendations for a "better iPhoto" on the Aperture form, but I (or rather the user I'm asking on behalf of) have some particular requirements.
At the moment he has a massive iPhoto library that is taking up most of the space on his MacBook's internal hard drive. He since bought an external and moved the Library over there. The problem is that he'll need to keep at least a minimal Library (probably "only" a few gigs) on his internal drive for when he's traveling. This minimal Library would be a subset of what is on the external drive. The external drive will be used mainly as "offline storage" for less frequently accessed pictures and an unofficial backup.
I showed him how to switch between iPhoto Libraries by holding the Option key but he finds it quite laborious to manage both Libraries -- it seems like you can't directly drag from one Library in to another but instead have to export the photos from one and import them in to the other. Please correct me if I'm wrong. One thing he'd like to be able to do is compare the Libraries side-by-side, so he can quickly tell what's what.
I think what we want isn't multiple Libraries but rather a Library that can span multiple disks. Our 'perfect program' would make it quite obvious WHERE the photo is located -- my user needs to be certain of what picture is on what drive. User confidence is a huge thing here -- a program that hides potentially useful information is NOT what we want.
I've downloaded the trial of Aperture. It appears that "Relocate Master" is close to the function he needs but what he really wants is more of a "Backup Master" to copy certain files to the external but also keep them on the internal drive if he wants.
Also, I haven't been able to determine how you get the file path to show. The list view in the browser tells you just about everything except this and it seems like you can't add columns like you can in Finder. Is there a way of automatically 'smart tagging' photos based on where they are on the filesystem?
If anyone has input, either on how to get iPhoto working how we want, or whether Aperture (or LightBox, or ???) is what we want, or even suggest a solid Finder work flow that will allow him to browse his massive collection (coverflow?) and keep it organized.
Finally, we have not tried iPhoto 9 yet, but I didn't see anything that looked like it addressed his need in the New Features part of the README. Again, pls correct me if I'm wrong.
Thank you for your advice and time!

I've been checking out iPhoto 09. I see it has a "Browse Backups" option that works with Time Machine. How does this workflow sound? User imports the photos to the Library on internal hard drive, runs Time Machine on his external drive. Any photos he doesn't want on his MacBook he can delete and bring them back using iPhoto's "Browse Backups" function. Yes?
A bit nervous about requiring Time Machine to restore things... as a general rule we try to avoid locking things in to a vendor specific format, and the prospect of just trusting it to work properly doesn't really appeal (we haven't had great luck with this Mac.) But it sounds like it might do exactly what we want. Thoughts?
Guess this question really belongs on the iPhoto forum now. I'll test this and ask any further questions there.
I would still appreciate any input regarding the previous potential solutions as well!
thanks again,

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