Images Shuffled Randomly in iMovie Media Browser?

When creating an imovie slide show and opening my AP3 projects in the media browser the images are not in the same sequence as when I view them in AP3. Can this be corrected? I've posted this ? in iMovie forum as well.

Aperture's iLife previews currently only sort by version name or manual sort. You'll need to set your albums/projects to sort by one of those options if you want the order to be predictable.
I also recommend you voice your displeasure about this annoying bug to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/aperture.html

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