Need to change time on some photos in iPhoto

Hi- I have no real experience with automator, but I think it could help me out here.
I have 1500 photos taken on a 2 week trip. I am going to put the best of them together as a slide show. The photos were taken with 5 different peoples cameras and none of the cameras were set to the same time. I would like to change the times on the photos data so that the photos will sort correctly for easy comparison. (often, all 5 people were shooting the same thing at almost the same time...) I can change the times individually in iPhoto, but that's a lot of work. 3 of the cameras are off by whole hour incriments (due to time zone varitations).
Is there a way to: select a group of photos in iPhoto, add/ subtract to the hour taken (but leave the minutes and seconds alone)?
thanks in advance for any help
Mealie
G5 ambient light Mac OS X (10.4.7) iLife 06

I emailed this question to a friend, he told me automator is "overkill" (his words) for this situation as a script will do the job. He also sent this link: http://www.joemaller.com/iphoto/
It seems to work just fine, in case anyone has the same need.
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