One event has 2,400 photos!!!

I have just transferred my iPhoto library from an external hard drive onto iPhoto'08 - to find that I have this huge single Event!! Is there any way iPhoto can automatically create individual Events from within this huge one, based on the dates the photos were taken? Otherwise I have a mammoth task in store!
Any advice would be much appreciated!
Thanks

A couple of choices
one is to just open the event, go to the bottom of it and scrool up until you want ot split it - select that photo and click split event - that photo and everyone below it will now be in a new event -- wtih 2400 photos you probably are looking at creating 50 or so events if your events are near average size - so thi sis not that big a job
If the photos have good dates in the EXIF data, Another is to delete the events, go to the preferences and set the auto split paramerters on import to what you would like and reimport the photos from your external harddrive
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