Organizing photos to burn to disc

Hi,
First off, I have looked through the discussions and can't find any information that can help me with this matter.
I want to burn 6 folders onto a disc from my Library. The pictures in the folders are in a particular order, but when I burn the disc, all the pictures and folders burn in a 'random' order (I know random is not the case here). I have renamed the pictures in the folders by doing a batch name change for each folder, but the pictures continue to be placed on the disc in a different order.
Is it possible to organize my photos on the disc with the pictures in order? It was time consuming to hunt through my Library and create the folders in the first place. I want to burn 6 onto a disc and when I reload the disc... they are out of order again... 500 photos that I have to hunt through to find a particular one.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Andrea
  Mac OS X (10.4.10)  

Andrea,
Are you trying to create a disc that will work withOUT iPhoto? Meaning that it simply contains the 6 folders of image files and no library information? Files in the Finder list in alpha-numeric order, so you'll need their filenames to be adjusted accordingly.
If so, then create an iPhoto Album for each folder you want. Arrange the photos in the albums in your desired order. Then Export each album to a desktop folder. The Export dialog gives you the option to rename the files by Album name. If you have an album called June, then the files will be June - 01, June - 02,...June - 99. This will only work for 99 photos, so limit the albums to that size.
If you don't want all the photos in the June album to be named June - ## there is another option that allows you to use the iPhoto titles to help you identify the photos. Arrange the photos in their Albums as before. Then edit the titles. You can go through each one and add a number to the beginning of its title. Be sure to pad the first ones with enough zeros for the last number (1 for up to 99, 2 for 100 to 999). This would give you 01 Swimming, 02 Dolphins,...99 the Beach. Export each album with "Use Title" selected. Now that the titles are in alpha-numeric order, they will remain as such. This method is obviously more time consuming, but may save you time when using the disc in the future.
You can name those 6 folders as you wish. To get them to list in a particular order simply add a number to the beginning of each folder name, from 1 to 6. Burn those 6 folders to your disc from the Finder.
On the other hand, if you want a disc that works directly in iPhoto, then you burn it from within iPhoto. It will mount in the Source Pane and allow you to view your photos in the iPhoto window as before. The order of the files would not matter.
Regards.

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