Finding photo by date

It used to be that iPhoto stored your photos buy year, month and then date. And by using the Finder you could find photos taken on a specific day very easily.
My son is now a year old and we want to go back and find the photos we painstakingly took of him on the 12th of each month.
Only by upgrading to iLife 06 the photos are all stored by roll number. Not ideal.
I see that you can scroll through your library and the approx. date flashed up, but this isn't really any good for homing in on a specific date. I know that you can also sort your libarary by date, but again, that isn't that much use for what I need to do. Sorting by roll only shows the date the roll was imported.
Any ideas? Is there a smart search that I don't know about? Like the vast majority of people I tend to dump photos onto my Mac and don't take the time to label them all (deleting out the many bad shots takes long enough!) so there's no keyword searching I can do.
Thanks

TWH3:
At the bottom of the Source pane is a calendar button. It brings up a calendar which will let you find photos by year or month or day.
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.

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Ruth
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