Projects sort order?

Whenever I import new photos, it puts them into a project, a uses the current date as the title of project. But then it throws that project into some random order in the list of all my projects. Shouldn't Aperture sort the projects by date, or alphabetically or something? I have to look through my whole list of projects to find the newest one, because it's not in a predicatbable place.
Help me understand how to manage how projects are listed.

In the Library tab of the inspector items (of which projects are one) can be sorted by name, kind or manually.
If you want to see the projects sorted by date you need to use the Projects view icon located at the top of the library list.
Or else name the projects something like 2012-04-10 and sort by name (or any string date form that will sort correctly if you sort by name)

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1. Can you move multiple albums around in Aperture?
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Chuckcars wrote:
I am in process of doing some rearrangement to make Projects as the main box (the file drawer) with headings like: iPhone, Assignments, Events, Landscape, People, Travel. Then, a specific folder under the project. Then, an Album under the Folder.
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^1^ http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2716711&tstart=0
^2^ http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2654297&tstart=0

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from
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(partition by r.TestName, b.ConfigValue, .ConfigValue,
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r.resultsId = d.resultsId and
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