Changing 'Date Created' on photos?

I have a number of scanned images, which I have imported into iPhoto. Of course, the 'Date Created' corresponds to the date I scanned the negative, and not to when the photo was taken.
I like the way I can sort photos by date order in iPhoto as it helps me find photos easily. However, the problem arises when my scanned images from 2003, for example, appear under August 2005!
Is there any way to modify the 'Date Created'? I can do it on the 'Info' pane within iPhoto '06, but this does not change the file attributes.
(I suppose I could put the date on my computer back a few year when scanning!!??)

Glad that helped Tim.
To answer your question. Yes, you would have to export the scanned files out of iPhoto and reimport for iPhoto to reorganize using the new creation date.
As you outlined, I usually drag the photos out of iPhoto to the desktop or a "Scanned Photos" folder, etc. Then move the photos that are in iPhoto to iPhoto's trash (of course you will lose keywords, etc). This way they are out of the library. I then would make the date changes on the files dragged out of iPhoto, and then finally drag them back into iPhoto for importing.
Plus you can always organize the photos into separate folders after assigning the new dates so when importing, your roll names will be created as well. After importing, assign your keywords to the "new" pictures.
I just upgraded to iPhoto 6 about 10 days ago and never specified roll names in iPhoto5. The Year/Month/Day organization was fine with me. Keywords are my big thing and I really didn't care how iPhoto decided to house my photos. But after seeing the new iPhoto 6 directory structure, I ended up Viewing by Roll and assigning roll names, spliting where needed, etc).
Not sure if this will work out for you... depends on how many photos you are looking at changing!
Good Luck!
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Using Lift Metadata and Stamp Metadata the date can be transferred to other pics.
Now when I export these pics the date does show up in Photoshop and SCC MediaGrid.
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Nick I don't generallt use the IPTC metadata, so I'm not sure I will be too much help.
What version of Aperture are you using? I tried both things and I didn't have any problems with the latest version of Aperture on my Mac.
I was able to enter a date into "Date Created" both with and without the time-zone adjustment. Can you tell us the exact string you tried to enter into the "Date Created" and exactly when you get the error? I tried to enter my time zone (eastern US) as "-5:00", but Aperture wouldn't let me enter the 5 and popped up the error message when I typed that key. I had to use "-05:00".
As for the caption, when I hit return, Aperture ends my edit. I cannot reproduce your described behavior of actually getting a new-line into the field. I suspect your problem (although I don't know how you get to your problem) is one of the following:
1) The IPTC standard doesn't tell if the software should use a Unix-style end-of-line (which is a line-feed), or a DOS/Windows style end-of-line (which is carriage-return followed by line-feed). Aperture may put in the Unix-style and your Windows programs don't know what to do with it.
2) The IPTC standard does indicate the end-of-line style, but either Aperture or your other programs don't follow it.
or
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