Rotated photos--fine in preview, wrong in iphoto

Hi,
I've looked through help for this, and can't find anyone with the same problem. Can anyone help?
I imported about 500 photos from my Canon S1 using Image Capture, erased the card, and then found that the camera hadn't auto-rotated the photos (they are all portrait orientation), probably because the camera was pointed straight down.
Anyway, as these are photos of documents that I need to be able to read, I was worried about rotating them because of jpeg loss, so I used a program called PhotoToolCM to do a lossless rotation. The images now have no thumbnail in Preview, but when I open them, they have the correct orientation. However, when I import them into iPhoto, they have the wrong orientation! How do I change this without rotating and saving 500 photos? The problem is not only the waste of time, but also that rotating jpegs in iPhoto causes gradual degrading of the image, which I really want to avoid.
Many thanks to anyone who can help me out!
pjs

By reading this Apple kb it would seem that Phototool does lossless rotation by writing to the exif. Any application that is exif aware will read it and rotate the image to be viewed by reading the exif tag. the problems is when an app is not exif aware. It seems iPhoto is not. I just did a test with Photo tool and a jpg and imported it into iPhoto. It imported in unrotated.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302669
The kb is for tiger.
The gist is, if you want all applications to read the photo as rotated you won't be able to do the lossless rotation by writing to the exif tags because not all applications are exif aware.

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