Glad it is sorted now
BTW - iPhoto does not make any copies of a photo - for iPhoto '11 when you import a photo there is a bit for bit copy made and stored in the "Masters" folder, a small JPEG thumbnail is made and stored in the thumbnail folder and when any modification is made including auto rotation a JPEG is made and placed in the preview folder - a preview is also created for each RAW photo imported
You never have any copies of photos within the iPhoto library and at most you will have three versions of it - master, preview and thumbnail
As to insane space - no - this is critical to the operation of iPhoto - it provides the capability of lossless editing, always haveing the digital negative available to revert to, of having a small thumbnail for quick display and of haveing a preview available for other software to use
It is important, is common for DAMS (Digital Asset Managers) and is the way iPhoto works - if you do not wnat these important features there are may other solutions available - pick one and use it instead of iPhoto
LN
PS - and disk storage is cheap so there really is no need to worry about it