Events imported in wrong order

I've got about 1,000 existing clips from my Sony hard disk camcorder which aren't compatible with IMovie. So I've had to convert them to DV using the excellent MPEG Streamclip from squared5.com
When I then import the clips into IMovie, the clips had the wrong date.
So I then used the excellent 'A Better Finder Attributes' to rename the files back to their original dates. This was a very painful manual process of renaming the files back to their original dates.
I then tried importing into IMovie again. The clips are imported in approximately the right order - but some events on the same day and imported in a random order - despite the filenames being sequential.
I've summised the reason is because some of the files have the same date and time stamp - i.e. a 10 second clip followed by a 20 second clip would have the same YYMMDD timestamp - so I'm assuming IMovie only looks down to the minute, not the second!!
I cannot bear the thought of going through 1000 files to change the timestamps again.
Is there an automated way of going through the 1000 files, and changing the timestamp in increments of (say) 2 minutes? Then, each clip would be 2 minutes later than the previous, so they'd presumably import in the correct order?
An additional problem - when importing the 1,000 clips, is there a way to say "split events on different days into a new event" (like there is when importing from DV tapes?) Otherwise, even when I crack the date/time issue, I'll then have to manually split events up - time consuming again.
I'm finding the whole IMovie process very frustrating to say the least. Any suggestions of making this whole process easier? The camcorder is an ongoing concern as I can't afford to buy a new one for a few years yet.
Thanks

Thanks, yeah, I'm already using a Better Finder Renamer.
I've tried appending "originalfilename-" to the filenames ; it doesn't seem to work then. But if I just use your "clip-" notation, it seems to work fine, and imports into the correct dates.
But...
Question....
I've imported a load of DV tapes from years ago, and it's quite clever, because there's a tickbox where you can have separate events for different days, so after you've imported a tape (which may span 3 months), it creates handy separate events for the different days. I like this.
However, when importing my DV footage (that I've converted from my MPG hard disk camcorder), I select the import function, then I select (say) 99 files from 2007. IMovie then imports them - seemingly as one big event. There is no option to split the events per day. So, for those 99 files, assuming 33 of them were from 1st March, 33 were from 2nd march, and 33 were from 3rd March, it would be nice to have the import automatically split into 3 events (just like it does for DV tape).
There is an (artificial) way of doing it. After the import, I click on the events pane, and select "show separate days in events". This has the desired effect, but is a somewhat fake way of doing it (it isn't necessary for my DV tapes). Is there a way of doing it during import?
(And I'm slightly confused by your suggestion of using the filename as the event name. I wouldn't know how to do this).
Thanks again.
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