Adjusting the date of events in iMovie '09

Hi,
Before I state the problem I want to make it clear that the two video events in question are of personal family events and NOT anything else (why else would I be raising the issue of adjusting event dates) - so please no post that relate to any copyright issues because there are none!!!
I recorded two family events on a hard drive camcorder that had a USB only connection.
At the time I was using iMovie 6 HD with Tiger which was firewire only, so I transfered the video to the hard drive of my DVD recorder because the camcorder was needed for other things. A few weeks ago I discovered that the recorder was having problems so I recorded the two events to DVDs.
Last week I upgraded to Leopard and iLife '09.
I downloaded a program from Apple.com's download section to import the events into DV format and then I imported them to iMovie '09 yesterday.
Of course, now the events are showing in iMovie '09 with yesterday's date.
Is there any way to change the dates of the events in iMovie?
Or at the very least adjust the dates of the DV clips and then re-import them?
Cheers
PS I assume when importing from a hard drive camera or a DV tape that iMovie '09 can detect the correct date on the recordings (I don't have a firewire cable or the hd camcorder at the moment to check myself)

Hi,
Just to update this - adding the correct date to the name of the event when importing the movie does make a difference.
cheers.

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