How to stop iphoto from reorganizing my photos?

Using iphoto on my Mac, I merged 2000 photos taken on the same days with two different cameras (Canon & Pentax), then selected 400 of the best, organized them to coincide with the progression of our trip, and then created an Album.  When I burned them to a DVD, the photos did not copy in the same order as on the Album.  The same is true when I copied them to a Memory disk.  Even tried selecting photos individually to copy; same result, scrambled photos.  Is there a way to prevent this?

then selected 400 of the best, organized them to coincide with the progression of our trip, and then created an Album
The options for ordering in an ALbum within iPhoto are not the same for a folder in the Finder. The Finder is much more limited - most commonly used is filename.
One way to get what you want: Export the files from iPhoto using the File -> Export command. In the Export dialogue note the options for Naming the output files. 'Album Name with Number' or 'Sequential' should get what you want.
Regards
TD

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