Iphoto 11 date batch change to album

I am organizing photos into albums for a project. When I go to adjust date/time on the album photos, even though I select all of the photos, the date won't change properly - Any one experience this? I am doing a memory DVD for a graduating class and need to resolve this! THANKS

When you tried to reinstall iPhoto did you delete all receipts with iPhoto in the file name beforehand? They will be all files with "iPhoto" in the file name with either a .PKG or .BOM extension that reside in the HD/Library/Receipts folder and from the /var/db/receipts/ folder,
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Delete the and then try reinstalling iPhoto 11 and run the 9.1.1 updater.

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I have a related issue, but not exactly the same. I have a bunch of photos that were in iPhoto 08 and now are in iPhoto 09. I think they have had a rough digital life, going back as far as 2003 and being exported and imported so much they don't know who they are...or should I say, when they are. The dates are all wrong with the exception that I think the correct date is somehow buried in a piece of metadata that I can't seem to access.
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So here is the issue: iPhoto doesn't seem to do anything useful with this Modified date, and I can't find that piece of data anywhere. Finder's "Modified" date (from Get Info) for these photos doesn't match iPhoto's "Modified" date...instead it's the same as Finder's "Created" date...which matches iPhoto's Imported date. I am not seeing this Holy Grail date in the eXiF information, or anywhere else, such as using an app like File Buddy.
What I want to do is be able to batch process all these photos so that their +Original Date+ (which I'm assuming is what iPhoto sorts by) is given the value of this Holy Grail Modified date. There are hundreds....no probably thousands of these photos, so no I'm not going to manually enter them with +Adjust Date and Time...+ At the very least, where is this mysterious date stored if I can't find it in Finder, an eXiF data view, or any other advanced file info viewer? Is it buried in the iPhoto library?
Sorry I know this is complicated, especially with all the names of dates, but please help!!!
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Adjust Date/Batch Change

Since upgrading to iPhoto 11 (9.2), I can no longer adjust the date on my photos. I had thousands of photos scanned in and I am trying to correct the date from the date scanned to the date taken (which I have on paper). I could always do this before with no problem. I could also Batch Change but that is grayed out along with Adust Date and Time. I've clicked everything I could think of but no success. Ideas? Maybe a Windows solution!

Thank you! Apple and I have a different definition of "selected". I consider a picture opened large (like when naming faces) to be "selected". iPhoto does not agree with me! (iPhoto wins!)

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First Problem: In October, 2012, scanned a photo into my MacMini in JPEG format. Creation date 10.12.2012 , Modified date 10.12.2012. This is OK.
This is an old family Christmas photo, so I use "touch -t" command through the Terminal application to change Creation and Modified dates to 12.25.1957 at 2PM (1400.00 hours). Use Finder/Get Info to check date of JPEG file and confirm change of date and time.
Then, import JPEG file into iPhoto: iPhoto shows date of JPEG file as 12.25.1957, but time is now 3:34.02PM (1534.02 hours). Use File/View in Finder to look at iPhoto file and discover that date and time are changed to 12/31/1969 at 7:00 PM (1900.00 hours). What's going on here?
Second Problem: Received a JPEG file by email and moved it to the Desktop.   Creation date and Modifed date of the file are the date and time they were downloaded from email onto my MacMini, which is today: 1/30/2012 at 11:30AM.   Use "touch -t" command through Terminal application to change Creation and Modified dates and times to 10/20/2012 at 6PM (which is when the picture was actually taken). Comfirm change through use of Finder/Get Info capability.
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That command is the adjust time/date command - not the batch change command
Adjust T/D takes a group of selected photos and applies a constant delta to them thereby correcting for camera setting errors or time zone issues
Also note that this is a user to user support forum not a path to Apple - it is a great plce for questions about how iPhoto works - it is an extremely poor place to make requests for changes since there is no one here who can do that.
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That command is the adjust time/date command - not the batch change command
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How can I do this?
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