Export copy changed original file name & date

Photoshop Elements 10.
I received a digital frame for Christmas.  In order to populate the card, I used the Export as new file, but to copy, not to move.  To fit the files, I had the pictures resized, and to simplify the copies, I had the copies renamed.  the card ended up with what I wanted, but I was left with a big surprise.  The originals had also been renamed.  I can live with that, but I'm not happy.  However, the renaming of the files also touched the file dates, so now I have nearly 5,000 pictures from over 12 years all with toady timestamps.
I notice that the EXIF dates (picture taken on) are all still there.  Is there a way to set the file dates to the EXIF dates?
Okay - added notes after my shock.    First of all, files names of the originals were not modified; I just choose a poor folder to look at, and those files names happened to start at xxx0001.  My bad.
And, while all the pictures I exported/copied were touched and their file dates changed,most of them are still correctly dated in the Elements organizer.  It appears that only those real early files, taken with my first digital camera, which did not have a an EXIF date to begin with, have all been shifted in the organizer to the date/time when the export/copy was made.
So, while nearly 5,000 files have had their dates changed, in the organizer it is only a couple of hundred that have shifted.
A) why in the world did these shifts happen?
B) for those with EXIF dates, any suggestion on correction?

While a script would probably be best, photoshop 7 requires
you download a scripting plugin which may or may not install
in photoshop 7 depending on your version.
You can probably do what you want with actions. The file naming part
is not hard, but i have a couple of questions about the cropping.
Are all the images the same size and are the crops in the same position for each?
In other words on the P crop (200x250), is the crop in the same position on each
image or different for each?
MTSTUNER

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