A script to change back to original file names??

Hi,
I'm looking for a script for iPhoto that will give some photos back their original file names?
or any way of doing that?
cheers

I have used apple scripts to correct time and dates?
can this cause a problem?
Probably not - although iPhoto probably will not recognize the modified information - but it is not a good idea to modify anything in the iPhoto library except using iPhoto - iPhoto '08 and later have a command to modify date and time - I do not think iPhoto 6 did, although its been a ling time now
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