IPhoto events not sorted right in iTunes/iPad

I have a large number of events, sorted alphabetically, and 17,000 photos.
Occasionally over the years, iTunes has listed the events in random order, or chronological order, making it difficult for me to find and check the events I want to sync to my devices. In the past, deleting the iPod photo cache inside the iPhoto library would fix the problem, but that's not working now. Also, the contents of each event are deliberately sorted differently in iPhoto, depending on the event. For some events, I want the oldest photo as the key photo for the event, and for others, I want the newest photo. This is still working in iPhoto, but now when I look at photos on the iPad or iPhone, the events are also sorted internally by date, oldest to newest. My event list is also sorted chronologically, oldest to newest, making it very difficult to find older events. I've tried changing the sort settings in iPhoto, with no effect on the sorting seen on the iDevice.
I'm using iPhoto 9.4, iTunes 10.7, iPad 2, and 2 iPhone 4's.
Anyone know how to fix this??? Thanks.

Do matters improve if you update to iPhoto 9.4.1?
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