IPhoto: Grouping / Nesting Events

Apple:
The requests and customer needs for grouping and nesting events has been communicated on these forums since about 2007 and one would think such functionality would have made it through by now.
Yes one can organize by Album or by Folder but none of that is nearly as nice or as elegant in handling photos as Events. I LOVE events but it is so limited in the shallow display and there needs to be a way to further nest events; otherwise iPhoto is just not extensible enough to handle a lot of photos.
As an alternative, if there is just no way Events will ever see grouping or nesting, is to beef up the Albums and Folders to be more Event like, with keyphotos and the other nice touches of Events.
-pixelrogue

Send a feature request to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html.  There're only users like yourself here.
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