IPhoto Event Folders now have weird encrypted looking titles?

Many of my iPhoto (also Aperture of course) event folders now have these encrypted looking folder titles and some may contain only one or two pictures.
There's a massive amount of them and I don't understand what created this mess? I have used some iphoto duplicate file location software just in case it may have been part of the problem.
Screenshot example enclosed.

I've run tests on the Gemini app and it found all of the duplicates in my test library except those HDR and normal files taken by an iPhone shooting in the HDR mode.
However, I wasn't able to test it's removal capability to see if it did it all within iPhoto and didn't damage the library structure. You can answer that.
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Hi Terence,
I did a little research and the loss of all my event folders occurred on Oct. 23rd. That must be when I upgraded to iPhoto '11 v 9.2.1. Sounds about right to me as that is about the time we got our iPhone 4S's
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Hey Everyone,
Typical Apple......some things are absolutely amazing, some things are absolutely stupid.
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I tried the autosplit selected event. I'm sorry I didn't see that before I asked my question. I was in panic mode and just bypassed that answer. Anyway, I hadn't set any preference settings - not knowing about those either - and the program did a decent job of coordinating some of the pictures, a poor job of coordinating other pictures, and I laughed out loud at some of the pictures that were put together in an event.
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