Date changing when dragging/copying photos

Help! I am trying to organize my iPhoto library. I am essentially dragging my photos from my library to a folder or dragging them to an externa hard drive so I can then organize them into a new library. The dates and times are correct in iPhoto. Then, when I drag them into a new folder the dates will completely change. I had an event with 4 photos in it and the correct date for all photos was 4/19/05. When I drag this event to a folder in my pictures file or when I drag the event into dropbox, the date on 2 photos changed to 3/17/11 and the date on the other 2 photos changed to 9/30/09. Does anyone know why this is happening or how I can stop it????

Suggested by a friend, I realize may be controversial... but, I have run out of room on my hard drive and need to dump my photos onto an external hard drive. So, here is what I am doing:
1) I create a folder in my pictures folder in Finder (Home --> Pictures --> New folder) for photos from a particular year (let's say 2008, let's say the folder is named Photos 08)
2) I drag an event/events of pictures taken in 2008 from my main iPhoto library into the folder Photos 08. This is the step in which I see the date change.
3) I switch to a different iPhoto Library (let's say Photos_2008). I have so many photos that my friend and I thought it would be easier to break them down into smaller libraries.
4) I import the photos from the folder Photos 08 into the iPhoto library Photos_2008. When I import the photos into the new library they all come through but they are lumped into one event called Photos 08 and the dates are still wrong. At this step, I have been manually correcting the dates.
5) then, I move the Photos_2008 library onto the external hard drive (actually 2 different external hard drives to be safe)
6) I make sure the photos are there by opening iPhoto from the external hard drive, and then delete (all the while cringing) the events from 2008 that are in my main iPhoto library
Does that make sense? Do you have any better ideas on how to get these onto the external hard drive? I'd like to keep some of the photos and my more recent photos on my computer but need to get the other ones off.
Also, a little background info... in early Sept '12 my system crashed. I also back everything up with Time Machine so they ended up reformatting my hard drive and then I used Time Machine to get everything back on my computer. Since then, my computer has been a mess. Multiple users with the same photos, songs, documents, etc. duplicates, triplicates of photos, documents, songs, etc. on my computer. A real mess.
Thanks for any advice you can offer,
StephPH

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