Photo order in album gets mixed up after sorting photos

I have created albums from a recent trip, which I am using to make slideshows. To get the photos in the desired order, I first sorted the album by date, then rearranged various photos to put them the way I wanted them. I created one slideshow from that, which worked fine. However, I came back to the original album the next day to make a different slideshow and the photo order has completely changed, into what seems random. They are not in date order, nor in file name order. I am very frustrated since I spent quite a bit of time editing and reordering the photos.
Similarly, if I have sorted an album by date, then use the pull-down menu to switch to manual, the photos again go into what seems like a random order.
Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
Relatedly, when I try to change the order of photos in a slideshow by grabbing a photo thumbnail from the top of the window and drag it to the right to put it at the end of the line, the window changes to another full-screen desktop, with iPhoto gone, hidden in another desktop. Even the desktop background has changed, into an old background that I no longer use.
Thanks very much for any assistance!

As a Test:
Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
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