Why Are Many iPhoto Files Now Thumbnails?

Greetings All: I've searched the forums for answers to my question, and there is a partially useful solution which dates back to 2006 about shrinking photos in iPhoto. All one needed to do to get around this problem was to go to ~Library/Pictures and make sure that iPhoto Data wasn't the selected folder for iPhoto. The solution was to select iPhoto Library as the source for iPhoto.
Now, things are a bit more complex. I cannot find a Pictures folder in ~Libary directory. It's now moved to ~Pictures. I have only one iPhoto libary file and it's called "Rebuilt Library". When I'm in Events mode and browsing iPhoto, I can get the app to show me the individual files, but I don't know where to find them. Often there are six copies of any given file with (EDIT) appended to one of the copies. As I click on each one, it's apparent that they are all tumbnails. Some of the photos are orignial size, but many aren't.
I wonder if I am doing something wrong, selecting an improper libary, or if I can kiss 800 or so of my Africa photos "goodbye"?
Thanks in Advance.
-jpkmd

LN:
I use iPhoto '11 v9.3. I own a MBP i7 dual core running OS 10.4.7. How did I get to the individual photo files? By selecting an indivdual photo, going to the "Edit" menu on iPhoto, and dropping down to the "Reveal in Finder" command. I saw folders marked by date full of individual photo files. I clicked on several of them which seemed to be duplicates named in series; for example:
IMO2345.JPG
IMO2345.1.JPG...
IMO2345.6.JPG
All seven photos were identical and all were of thumbnail size.
Also present were photo files marked with (EDIT) such as
HOLIDAY2005.JPG
HOLIDAY2005(EDIT).JPG
Again, both photos identical and both in thumbnail size.
I opened these photos with Lemke's GraphicConverter. You say this is an SQL database and cannot be interpreted by any other application but iPhoto. (I had to look up the definition of SQL.) From my non-tech point of view, I was struck by the fact that there was so much duplication, so many (EDIT) files, and all in thumbnail size which is how they appear in iPhoto. I didn't delete or rearrange any of the files. I won't monkey around with that database again.
There are two iPhoto libraries in my ~Pictures folder. One is iPhoto Library which is blank. The other is Rebuilt Library which contains all the data; it was created at the suggestion of the iPhoto application I was running in about 2006-2007. I don't recall exactly how I accomplished this.
There are still some photos which are at normal size. I recall going through the approximately 4,500 photos in my iPhoto collection (there have to be copies in here) and taking out thumbnail duplicate photos. I took a photo journey to Africa a few years ago, and some of those photos seem to be thumbnail now, which makes me panic; however most of the other photos I have in iPhoto are thumbnail size now. I don't know how to proceed from here. At the time I did it, looking at the individual photos in the folders seemed like a reasonable thing to do. I'm a doctor, and I felt like doing some exploratory surgery. But I won't do that again.

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