Exporting Photos out to go back to iPhoto 4

I have a quick question: if I export all my photos in their original state out of iPhoto5, trash iPhoto5 and re-install iPhoto4, when I import the photos back into iPhoto4 will they lose their dates? I know I'd lose my albums doing it this way, but will the photos lose their basic info or will they appear in iPhoto4 in the exact same order they were in in iPhoto5?

They very well might, not sure. You can test it by creating a test iPhoto 5 library and exporting a few to the desktop and then import into the test library.
Another possible way to go back would be to create a new library when you get iPhoto 4 up and running at 4.0.3 and then use the File->Import menu option to navigate to the old library folder and select it to import. That has a good chance of retaining a lot of the roll information.
Another method would be to use iPhoto Library Manager. After creating a new v4 library use IPLM to try to merge the old library into the new one. If it will work between two different versions of the library folder you'll be able to retain keywords, rolls, albums, etc. But being different version folders is iffy. You can contact the developer and see if it will work that way before purchasing the full version which is required.
In regards to your slow operation with V5, what camera do you have? See this thread regarding that: Eric Lindsay, "What can be done about slowness?" #34, 07:05am Jul 26, 2005 CDT. if you think that's the problem here's a page at MacOSXHints that describes and offers some AppleScripts to remove that meta data and reconstruct the library: Clean up the meta data in iPhoto's dB file. Once you're at that page select the option to flatten the thread so you can see the original post and all the commends. Be sure to read all the comments because there are some other hints in there.
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Or have they been synced to the iPad with iTunes?
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See: iOS: Syncing photos using iTunes
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