Organize photos within events

I'm using iPhoto 09 on Snow Leopard and I love the whole 'events' feature, it's great, but when I'm actually looking through an event, let's say "Colorado 09", the pictures were imported in a different order than I wanted them.
How do I re-organize these photos within the event, I can't click and drag them, I can't figure it out....hopefully it won't be too obvious because then I'll feel dumb

How do I re-organize these photos within the event, I can't click and drag them, I can't figure it out....hopefully it won't be too obvious because then I'll feel dumb
It is not obvious at all -- because you can not - there are a few sort options you can use but basically events are time based
You can make albums and in an album you can sort anyway you want including manually
You will find it helpful (and time saving) to go through the iPhoto tutorials - http://www.apple.com/findouthow/photos/
LN
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    LN
    Message was edited by: LarryHN

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    Welcome to the Apple user discussion forums
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