IPhoto undoes my manual album sort

Hi, after I had to rebuild my iPhoto library, there is now a behavior I've not seen before:
After (spending much time) manually sorting folders and albums (albums chronologically inside folders), after closing and re-opening iPhoto, the sequence is messed up. If I select Sort albums, they will be sorted alphabetically, but even this sequence is messed up when I close iPhoto. I cannot see any pattern to the way the folders and albums are sorted upon start-up.
Does anyone know why this happens and how to make my manual sorting "stick"?

Rebuilding with iPhoto is less disruptive to the resulting library than with iPLM as it doesn't lose projects.
Since the album and their order are kept in the library's database files rebuilding it has a good chance of correcting the problem. If it doesn't then it might be a damaged cache and/or preference file. In that case try the following:
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete the contents the following folder:
User/Library/Containers/com.apple.iPhoto
3 - reboot, launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE: In Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks the Home/Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and press the Return key - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.

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