Help with organizing events in iPhoto

I'd like to create individual, personalized events in my iPhoto but I cannot figure out how to do this. create. It seems that the events are currently organized by way of when they were downloaded. I'd like to essentially pick these disorganized events apart and make my own folders. It's probably a simple fix but I can not seem to figure it out.

Are you wanting to create Albums instead? Events are created by options you have set up in your Preferences. You can rename them, but I'm thinking that what you are describing are Albums. If so then this link should help:
iPhoto 9.5: Create or change a standard photo album
Cheers,
GB

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Ned Murphy wrote:
You should be getting an error for the Main.as class due to missing a line to import the Event class...
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package
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[SWF] Untitled-1.swf - 40457 bytes after decompression
addEventListener
addEventListener
addEventListener
addEventListener
addEventListener
addEventListener
dispatchEvent
[UnloadSWF] Untitled-1.swf
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