IPhoto years Organization

Hello to all. i am a new Mac user and having very many photos.
I have decided to catalogue them with iPhoto but…I have a problem.
I have imported photos made until the 2004 and end here all good,
Under bookcase I find all directory of vary years.
The photos before of the 2004 year (2002,2001) are insert in "all recent photos" without to create me new
cartelle with the years… to someone it has happened and it found one solution?
iMAC 20" Mac OS X (10.4.9)

As Mike said, you can't break up the "Early Photos" album. Those year divisions of the Library are Smart Albums created automatically by iPhoto.
But you can create your own albums for the years you want. You can either create a Smart Album where the date range is Jan 1, 2002 to Dec. 31, 2002 (for example) and repeat for each year. Or use the calendar tool to bring up all photos from a given year, Select All, and place into a regular album. Both choices are quick and easy.

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And the problem here is my very narrowly-focussed, chronological Project structure (with folders for each year, sub-folders for each month, and then individual Projects by date) makes for a Library with over 1200 Projects -- each of which needs to be seen in iPhoto as a separate Event.
Also, I can't seem to find a way to export and/or drag previews from Aperture's Browser (either in groups of Projects or even just one Project at a time) into the Finder in such a way that folders are automatically created whose names match those of the Projects. And if I would have to manually create -- and name -- each of those Finder folders before dragging previews into them from Aperture, and THEN drop those folders into iPhoto, I'm not sure what's been gained vs. manually renaming "Untitled" Events inside iPhoto itself.
But maybe I'm not completely understanding the workflow you were suggesting.
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I cant think of a faster method.
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In this folder there are various files, which are the Library itself and some ancillary files. Then you have three folders
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