IPhoto Event Names with Ampersands- Movie ?

I have some videos taken with a Flip Mino that I imported into iPhoto with an event name of "2008 August Mom & Dad Visit". That event didn't show up in my iMovie "iPhoto Videos" browser, but when I went back into iPhoto and renamed the event "2008 August Mom/Dad Visit", it showed up just fine. I wonder if there's a bug in the iMovie project import code that causes it to have problems with event names that have ampersands in them?

Jeffrey, You're a godsend! It was driving me CrAzY trying to figure out one of my event album videos wasn't showing up in iMovie. SURE ENOUGH, I had an "&" in the name. Once I changed it, it showed right up in iMovie! Thanks for saving me from pulling my hair out!

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