Is there a way? Some iPhone/iPhoto questions

to order the photos so that the latest photos in the past 12 mos are displayed?
The default seems to be oldest first, making it a chore to see recent photos. I have about 4600 photos on there and it's a lot of trouble to see the recent ones.
Also, imports from iPhone to iPhoto sometimes imports dupes even though Do Not Import has been selected. Is there anyway to eliminate these without individually selecting them and deleting?
A sips query could be use to determine dupes, but that would be outside of iPhoto and might screw up the indexing scheme.
Last item: earlier iPhoto created thumbnails that were indexed with and displayed with the full scale images. How can these be easily deleted?
Any ides greatly appreciated.

The default seems to be oldest first, making it a chore to see recent photos. I have about 4600 photos on there and it's a lot of trouble to see the recent ones.
I don't believe this can be changed with the iPhone but you don't make use of Albums with iPhoto transferring all or select Albums to the iPhone?
All album photos will be available in the main iPhoto Library with the iPhone - just as with iPhoto but you can select an album and view photos in that album only - it will still be oldest first but makes viewing select photos only with the iPhone easier along with the ability to sort through or view all photos available in all albums at the same time by selecting the Photo Library.
Also, imports from iPhone to iPhoto sometimes imports dupes even though Do Not Import has been selected. Is there anyway to eliminate these without individually selecting them and deleting?
Are you deleting photos taken by the iPhone after being imported into iPhoto? I always delete all photos in the iPhone's Camera Roll after the iPhoto import process and any of these photos I want available on the iPhone, I create a new iPhoto album or place select photos into an existing album, etc. and then these photos are transferred back to my iPhone via the sync process.
Last item: earlier iPhoto created thumbnails that were indexed with and displayed with the full scale images. How can these be easily deleted?
Not sure about this one - are you using iLife 08 and if so, are the same thumbnails available/shown now?

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