Sort by import date?

I've discovered there is no obvious, and probably even no way at all to sort photos by import date. I tried to reimport photos from a disk to iphoto and then burn them to a seperate disk...only to discover that once the photos were imported the only way to find the duplicates was to go through my hundreds of photos visually. No other present/preset way of doing it. I can confirm by "get(ing) info" but can't sort by the needed criteria to send to the trash.
Pretty frustrating. Newly reimported photos were highlighted until I tried to create a folder to put them in...then they were mixed in with everything else.
Any ideas short of one at a time?
Derek P
Mac Book Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Yes, in essence that's what I was trying to do. Checked out the link and that would do what I needed...just wish there was more sorting/searching flexibility in iPhoto, then wouldn't need anything else.
Anyhow, went through today and was able to delete the duplicates. Didn't buy the shareware, so wound up doing it manually. The trial version wouldn't let me sort through enough photos to get the job done. Thanks for the link though.
Derek P

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Revision: 4421
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2009-01-07 09:50:25 -0800 (Wed, 07 Jan 2009)
Log Message:
* Implemented signature sorting for imports, use namespaces,
variables, functions, classes and interfaces, plus associated
metadata. This should speed up compile times when the items listed
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Needs DOC: NO
Bug fixes: SDK-18480
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[ 4%] [ 5%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/guayadeque.dir/AlListBox.o
Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/guayadeque.dir/ArListBox.o
In file included from /tmp/yaourt-tmp-gianluca/aur-guayadeque-svn/guayadeque-svn/src/guayadeque/Trunk/src/LastFMPanel.h:25,
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