Random date changes on older photos

I am very organized in iPhoto, I've been using it for years. I have 15,000+ photos in my iPhoto library and since last week I have noticed that it is randomly redating my some of my older photos. Last week I browsed through my library from the earliest date (2003) without modifying anything on any photos... since then it has randomly redated some of those photos. I have no idea how or why this has happened... any info anyone can give me as to why this happened or how to correct it would be greatly appreciated!! I take extreme care to organize each and every photo that I upload, this little issue is driving me crazy!
Thanks in advance!
Sarah

So what to do about 25,500 photos dating back to 1999 all changed to Feb 2 2010?
I can't solve your underlying problem, but I wanted to point out that there probably are utilities that will - on a batch basis - change these file dates back to whatever you want.
If you lived in the Mac world, I'd point out that iPhoto - the Mac photo cataloging application - will reset the dates and times of selected photos to whatever you want. So you could select folders or groups of pictures and reset their dates.
Go to Google and see if there is a Windows-equivalent utility. When I do a search like this on Google, I try to imagine what words or terms would be used in the product description, or on the developer's web page. Here, I'd choose "reset date" and "pictures" and "file" and "Windows".
This won't help you solve the underlying problem, but it might help you afterwards.
I've started keeping an old backup hard disk in my gun safe, and only updating it in June and December. That gives me six months to discover that something catastrophic has gone wrong with some of my files - or pictures.
I keep two other backup hard drives that I exchange on a weekly basis. I could see me corrupting the relevant files on both of my weekly backup drives before I realized that I had a problem. Hence, the need for a third long-term hard drive.
Sure, an extra hard drive will cost you $50 to $100. How much time will you have to spend trying to recover from this?

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