Moving photos in the main iphoto library

Hi there,
I import photos from different sources (scans, digital cameras, panoramic images created in PS) and they often end up in an odd order. A sequence of photos taken on one day will be separate from a PS panoramic made up of photos taken on the same day. I would like to be able to move photos around within the main library, grouping them together, but they don't seem to drag and drop. I do NOT want to have to create an album in order to group photos - I want to have control over the main window. Is this possible?
J

I did
View menu -> Sort Photos -> Manually
and all the folders in the Photos library (the one under Events) vanished. Can I get them back? Is the Photos library effectively been replaced by Events?

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