Assigning faces is harder than assigning keywords

I'm organizing photos on my mother-in-law's computer and thought I'd use the faces feature to identify family members.  It is not working well.  It finds faces for some people, but for others it gives around 200 mostly incorrect matches.  Marking the few correct matches as correct does not help clear out all of the incorrect one, and Opt-clicking 200 photos for a number of family members is not efficient.  The photos where I have identified the people are not blurry or dark and are full face shots.  In the end I gave up and assigned keywords for family members for now, as I can do it without wasted clicks on false positives.  I do not have this problem with the facial recognition in Picasa when I work on other family member's computers.  I could tolerate the Faces process if it at least learned enough to get rid of false positives, but it seem that once a picture is thought to be someone the only way to change iPhoto's grouping is to reject the suggestion or assign the real person to it.  Any advice?

What advice were you hoping for? Your post seems more like something for the feedback channel.
iPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback

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