Hiding photos in one folder hides them everywhere

I have a large group of photos from a trip that are separated into events for each day. I need to edit and remove some of the photos to submit to an organization. To accomplish this, I've created a folder for this set of images. I drag each event into the folder and this creates an album of the same name. My intention is to go through the images in this folder, "hide" and edit some of them, and then export the set to a disc.
I've discovered that each time I click "hide" on an image in this folder, the same image in its original "event" group in the main iPhoto window, is also marked "hide". I want to mark this image "hide" only in the albums in the folder that I've created to submit to the organization. Is this possible to do another way?
I know that I could just leave all the photos as they are in the main iPhoto window, but I want to keep the set that I submit to this organization separate for a couple reasons: one, its annoying to me to scroll through the photos and have many of them with the "X" on them, two, I will be putting together a slideshow of images, some of which may now be hidden and I will have to unhide them to do this, three, I want to keep a record in iPhoto of what I did and did not submit to the organization.
Any thoughts would be helpful.
Thanks

Thanks, but if I delete it from the album, I can't see a photo that I've selected to show in the context of other similar shots that I've decided not to show.
It sounds like there is no way to do what I want to do. I understand the benefit of new albums, and folders holding pointers to the main image, but it would seem like it wouldn't violate this functionality to allow for a folder to contain notes, or actions (such as hide) that exist only in that folder--the image would not be altered, but the folder would have its own set of metadata.
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