Events: sharing and syncing

I have been hesitant to use iPhoto in the past. Seams much easier just to have a folder in finder. But there are a few perks with using it, so I've decided to go a head and use it. Especially having multiple Macs in the family, the wife wants to see my photos. I figured it would be easy just to turn on the sharing. Also, I have a MBP, so having the photos being available in front row as well! And then there's the iPods and the iPhones.
I finally made the jump from iLife '06 to '08, and drug 240 folders into iPhoto 08. It did a pretty good job with creating events for each folder, with the proper names.
I thought everything was going to be cool until I tried looking at the Photos through Front Row, and you cant' see events in front row. What's the deal? I can only see albums. Same for syncing with iPods/iPhones, same for sharing Photos across a network. You can only see albums, and not events.
I didn't really have a lot of albums. I have a few when I "thought" I was going to use iPhoto before. I found out you can't drag a set of folders to the albums and have it create an album for each folder. I started doing it one by one and gave up. Too tedious!
Anyone know if Apple is going to fix this? If not, I'd like to have each of my events be an albums, but it seams like you have to do ONE event at a time. I tried dragging all my folders at once into the albums, but it would make one big album. Same for events. I want a separate album for each event (or folder on my drive).
Is there any way to automate this process in iLife 08? Or do I have to manually create an album for each event/folder? Or will Apple decide to support events in all the other avenues you use to use "albums" for.

I don't believe rolls were viewable in Front Row either. It's just the nature of the beast. I guess Apple thinks users will be selective of what they put into albums for viewing thru Front Row.
If you want to create an album of each event just drag the event into the left hand pane. An album with the same name as the event will be created. With albums you can better sort the photos into the viewing order than in Events which lack manual sorting.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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