IPhoto '08 suggestion

How do you give input to Apple on software enhancements?
I have one, after using iPhoto '08 for a few minutes I noticed that there is one enhancement that seems to be missing.
In iPhoto everything is now in "events". Events are nice, I like the feature.
However, as I am building my events from years of photos, thousands of photos, I will have lots of events.
My issue, when in Pages (or other Apple apps) and I choose Media to see my photos and drop them in...I see events, but the events do not retain the event name from the library.
Maybe I am not visual enough, but I cannot remember from the front picture, when I have so many events, the right event.
It would be nice to see the event name (just a mouse-over) in the Media dialogs in OS X.
How can I pass that on?
Ken

Ken
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html
Regards
TD

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