IPhoto Movies marked as 1904

I've seen a few other posts about this but they are archived for some reason so I cannot reply to those threads.
I just upgraded to iLife 09/iMovie 09 hoping this might be addressed, no such luck!
Is there anyway you can force iMovie to recognise the correct metadata from Quicktime movies in iPhoto? It seems to me some of my snapshot camera based movies are fine, whereas half have the wrong date (1904). I have tried updating the metadata in iPhoto but this has no effect. They all came from the same camera.
Any ideas out there?
Luke
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