IPhoto "Events" improvement suggestions

Events are an improvement over film rolls. But there are cases that don't work well with Events.
For example, if I take a birthday shoot during the day, then take a picture of my bedroom at night, that final photo doesn't belong to the event. Splitting it produces a pretty awkward event of one picture. This is actually a very common case -- my library if filled with odd pictures taken here and there that don't belong to any logical event.
It is frustrating to have every photo bound to an event. Often I take pictures just to record aspects of my life -- like what I had for dinner or a bunch of books that just arrived. The result is that the average import size is around 3 pictures. The problem is, these "events" have the same display prominence as wedding and birthday pictures. I would love to use the events viewer, but these pictures have no place. I can't hide them since they disappear in the regular photo viewing section too if I do. If I try to collapse them into one event, they soon begin to lose their temporal coherence. The right solution is to have them outside of events. But this is not possible. But the very existence of miscellaneous pictures completely undermine the utility of the events viewer.
I think the premise that events are around 50 photos is too simple an assumption. The fact is, everyone has different shooting habits, and it would be a mistake to make events out of every imported photo.
The novelty of events is in their viewing capability -- fast scrubbing, easy key photo selection and attractive thumbnails. This viewing ability should be extended to photo albums. It would be much more useful if I can view a folder of albums in this way. For example, I have a folder that lists all the European cities I've been to. Each city has its own album. The current way of viewing doesn't allow me to them in events mode. Instead, they are spilled into several pages. Having the events viewer for albums and nested folders would be highly useful.
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For example, if I take a birthday shoot during the day, then take a picture of my bedroom at night, that final photo doesn't belong to the event. Splitting it produces a pretty awkward event of one picture. This is actually a very common case -- my library if filled with odd pictures taken here and there that don't belong to any logical event.
This is very true. But don't get hung up on the Word, you can make events mean what you want it to mean. In v6 I had Rolls for every import, not every picture belonged to an event - sometimes they might be months apart. So, I managed my Rolls - The Birthday Pics were one roll, but then I created generic Rolls for unrelated pics - March - May 07 was one, for instance. You can do exactly the same with Events.
Remember, Events in the iPhoto Window correspond exactly with the Folders in the Originals Folder in the iPhoto Library package file (Right click on it in the Pictures Folder -> Show Package Contents). So, a photo has to be in some folder somewhere.
And remember the ability to create and manage by Albums is not changed in v7
As to your comments about viewing Albums in the same way as Events, why not send Feedback using the command in the iPhoto menu.
Regards
TD

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Yes - two different ways to view your photos in the iPhoto library
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What changes have you made recently? for there to be a duplicate in iPhoto you would have had to import it - iPhoto does not duplicate photos
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