IPhoto fails to sort events by title

Hi everyone, and thank you in advance for any support you may be able to provide.
I have been plagued by this issue for some time and it is truly infuriating. If I have not provided enough information please say so and I would be happy to add more info.
The issue is this: events do not sort by title.
Let me go more in depth:
It is possible for me to sort them by title, using the menu options in the status bar. (View>Sort Events>By Title)
But, if I combine events, delete or create new events, all havoc breaks loose. The events are then in no discernable order, even while it says they are sorted by title in the status bar.
I am running the latest version of Mac OSX, Mountain Lion 10.8.2, and the latest version of iPhoto, 9.4.2. I have a 27" Late 2010 iMac with Intel i7 and 12 GB of RAM.
Please, please, please help me?

Have you tried going back to the Sort menu and changing Ascending to Descending or the orther way around and back again to see if that will jump start the sort by title?
If that doesn't help try the following:
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
User/Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder (Snow Leopard and Earlier).
or with Mt. Lion from the User/Library/Containers/com.apple.iPhoto/
Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder
3 - launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding down the Option key when launching iPhoto. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
NOTE 2: In Lion and Mountain Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
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