Albums all sorted then suddenly get messed up

I have my photo albums manually sorted in iPhoto, just the way I want them to appear in my iPhone/iPad. Worked perfectly like this for 3 years. However, two weeks ago the order of the albums was just suddenly all jumbled up randomly. I painstakinginly re-ordered them back the way they were. Yesterday it did it again. WHY? Anyone?

Greetings,
If the albums spontaneously changed that suggests perhaps an issue with the iPhoto Library itself (damage).
A few questions for you first:
__Do you maintain backups of your computer (Time Machine for example)? If so, you can go back in time before this issue occurred and restore your Library. If you don't have backups you should seriously consider it. Anyone that has information they care about on any computer should have a backup: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553
__The albums that are changing, are they iPhoto Albums or are they MobileMe galleries (An album is a little blue book and a gallery is a cloud)
__Is your iPhoto Library being stored in the location specified by Apple (Your User > Pictures > iPhoto Library) or are you keeping it somewhere else?
Try some basic fixes:
Ensure all your software is up to date (Apple Menu > Software Update).
Remove the following to the trash and restart the computer and try again:
Home > Library > Caches > com.apple.iphoto
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.iPhoto (There may be more than one. Remove them all.)
If the issue persists try rebuilding your iPhoto Library following this article http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2638. Use the bottom 3 rebuild options.
You may still have to re-sort your albums at this point, but hopefully they won't magically change again.
Again, if you don't have a backup, I would highly recommend it.
Hope that helps.

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