Resetting Roll numbers

I've got about 200 rolls in my iPhoto library. Some time back, there was a glitch in the counting, and iPhoto started to assign new imports from the camera counting up from "Roll 500". So I had rolls numbered 1 - 131, then a sudden leap to 500, 501...
I renumbered these later rolls to numerical sequence, so the last roll in the library became "Roll 199", but iPhoto labelled the next import as "Roll 570", (instead of "Roll 200" as I would have liked).
Is there any way to reset the count, so it picks up sequentially from the last roll number in the library when I import a new batch?
I've tried trashing the com.apple.iphoto.plist in my preference folder with no difference made.

No there isn't. But what you can do is rename the Rolls into something more meaningful than numbers: 'Our Wedding' 'Spring 2006' 'Xmas 2008'.
Rolls in the iPhoto Window (View -> Film Rolls) correspond exactly with the Roll Folders in the Originals Folder in the iPhoto Library Folder. You can move photos between Rolls, you can rename rolls, edit them, create them, as long as you do it via the iPhoto Window. Check out the Info Pane (wee 'i', lower left) the name and date fields are editable. Edit a Roll Name using the Info Pane, the Roll Folder in iPhoto Library Folder/Originals will also have the new name.
Regards
TD

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