Moving about newly imported photos

Hi there,
I have a fairly large iPhoto library spanning over 800 events and 49,000 pictures, all arranged chronologically. I am about to start scanning in a lot of old memorabilia that I will eventually want to put new scanned images into the relevant events.
The thing I am wanting to know is as new content will be automatically added to the bottom of the event list as it will be deemed to be pretty current by date, is there a way that you can import specific images into specific older Event folders ? I wouldn't mind doing it manually, it's just pretty slow dragging stuff up the Event list order. Even with my Event preview windows set as small as they go and my iPhoto window as large as possible to get as many Event windows visible in a row, there are still more than 100 rows and it can take literally minutes to frag new additions from the bottom of the order to the top.
Thanks,
Craig

No, you cannot import to a specified event. Each new import is processed as an Event.
Easier than dragging and dropping might be to Flag pics to be moved, then select the target Event and use the 'Add Flagged Photos to Selected Event' command in the Events Menu.
Also, with 800 Events, perhaps you need to reconsider your organizing system.
Albums and Smart Albums can all be put into Folders, and Folders can be nested inside other folders. They really are much more flexible than Events.
Fwiw:
I use Events simply as big buckets of Photos: Spring 08, July - Nov 06 are typical Events in my Library. I use keywords and Smart Albums exensively. I title the pics broadly.
I keyword on a
Who
What
Where basis (The When is in the photos's Exif metadata). I also rate the pics on a 1 - 5 star basis.
Using this system I can find pretty much find any pic in my 20k library in a couple of seconds.
So, for example, I have a batch of pics titled 'Seattle 08' and a typical keywording might include: John, Anne, Landscape, mountain, trees, snow. With a rating included it's so very easy to find the best pics we took at Mount Rainier.
File -> New Smart Album
set it to 'All"
title contains Seattle
keyword is mountain
keyword is snow
rating is 5 stars
Or, want a chronological album of John from birth to today?
New Smart Album
Keyword is John
Set the View options to Sort By Date Ascending
Want only the best pics?
add Rating is greater than 4 stars
The best thing about this system is that it's dynamic. If I add 50 more pics of John to the Library tomorrow, as I keyword and rate them they are added to the Smart Album.
Keywording takes time to set up, there's no doubt about it. I use Keyword Manager as it's much more powerful than the inbuilt system, and adds the possibility of nested keywords. So, for instance, if I add John to a photo it also adds 'Family'. Now I can add many keywords to a pic quickly.
In the end, organisation is about finding the pics. The point is to make locating that pic or batch of pics findable fast. This system works for me.
Regards
TD

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