Sequencing in iPhoto

I'm relatively new to Snow Leopard, and iPhoto 8 (8.1.1) and I don't see what I need in the other posts. I really miss the ability I had in iPhoto in Tiger to show all photos by sorting them on their titles, without the "events" category. The program appears to group photos by event as to when they were entered, and I scanned a lot of older photos in many batches, but the titles either define their actual date (taken) or a prefix I assigned to designate decade (back to 1880's). But I can't see how to get rid of the events classications which Apple attaches. If I cannot in iPhoto, is their another program available out their (reasonable cost) which will allow me to do what I want?
Peter F.

I really miss the ability I had in iPhoto in Tiger to show all photos by sorting them on their titles, without the "events" category.
On the left hand column select 'Photos'.
Then View Menu -> Uncheck 'Event Titles' (if it's checked)
Then View menu -> Sort Photos -> By Title
Regards
TD

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