Help? (Terence or Old Toad) repost: album manual sorting

Just in the last week, my kids albums won't maintain the manual sorting I have done. It keeps putting several (not all) of the more recent pictures at the very beginning of the album (sorted in order since the day they were born ~1000 pics in each album). I drag them back to the end and everything looks fine, quit and when I reopen iPhoto 11 the photos are back at the beginning. I have deleted and readded the pictures, deleted the preference file in my user library multiple times, rebooted, etc.
It is only affecting certain pictures, but not even the same ones in my different kid's albums. Frustrating...
I can't figure this out!
I would love some help. Thanks!
P.S.-more info (my computer is the new iMac with the fastest processor).
I really don't want want to rebuild the library because I have dozens of projects (books, calendars, etc.) that I don't want to lose.
I originally scanned in many hundreds of photos that were named with dates included. If I batch rename the files with numbers I would lose all of the meticulous naming. Is there a way to just add a number at the beginning of the photo file name. I was thinking maybe if I renamed, then I could just sort by name, but I am not sure how that would carry into the future if I want to do it by date...
I have everything backed up on Time Machine, but if I revert to a few days ago, do I have to revert everything else too? I spent 4 hours yesterday on iTunes upgrading music to iTunes Plus, updating iPhone software, etc. and I DO NOT want to lose that work either.
Ideas??

See my reply to your post in the other topic.

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