IPhoto Questions - Mac G5

Hey guys!
I have a question regarding iPhoto in Mac OS X. All photos are arranged by date which is a problem since many of my photos do not have that information available. I want to locate photos by topic, i.e. name of child, event, holidays, etc. Is there a way to tag the photos because it will take me forever to find a picture by date. And in PSE3 for Mac, the browser window is not very big so I can't see a lot of pictures at a glance. Within iPhot, the photos are grouped under source by albums (names or topics). Why can't I browse by album rather than date? Any thoughts?
Also, I've noticed that when I double click on a photo to import it into PSE3, the photos are all small and very fuzzy. The size is like 2" x 3". Was there something unique to Mac I should have done when downloading the photos from cd to iPhoto? The photos are all blurry. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm getting pretty frustrated.
Debbie

Okay, so are you saying I could set up folders say, in the Finder under Documents, and develop a file system much like I had in Windows? Personally, iPhoto doesn't help me much with Scrapbooking. I could download to a folder but the photos could remain in there indefinitely, until I find the time to scrapbook the pictures. The old windows folders worked just like a filing system. Open up this file for one child, this one for another. It seems to me it would be easier for me to grab my pictures in that manner than having to export to a file and then reimport. But I really don't know--thus all these silly questions. It sounds like the keywords in PSE aren't going to help me much--scripting? What is that? I tried to add keywords but they don't seem to connect to or find anything when I run the search. Should I try to recatagorize my files so I can browse to file folders because right now the browser just shows the worthless dated files from iPhoto? It it possible to turn off iPhoto when I'm in PSE and if so is this something to consider? I just want a file that when I see its name, I know what is going to be inside. Right now it's a guessing game and I don't have the time to hunt in every dated file to find that one picture. Even if I guessed the right year, many of the files do not have the correct dates so it's a hide and seek game.
I think what I need from you both is your recommendations about what would work best for a scrapbooker? I have page kits and photos and that's basically all I need. My kits are all filed nice and neat in file folders that tell me exactly what is in that file. They pull up nicely in the browser so I can see them. That's what I need to be able to do with my pictures.
I appreciate all the time you have spent trying to help. These are questions that are hard to find solutions to in a text book. What works for one person, doesn't for another. And since I'm still a newbie at the Mac I really don't know enough to make an educated guess. Everytime I do that, I screw something else up!!! I fix one thing and another question pops up! It's safer to ask the experts first!
Thank you!
Debbie

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