Sorting by keyword

A strange thing is happening when I sort using keywords: I have my iPhoto "view" set to display film rolls in ascending order. Before I do a keyword sort, everything is in the order it should be - however, once I sort by highlighting a keyword, the rolls are re-arranged in a seemingly random order. Once I reset the keyword panel, the rolls go back to the proper order. Any ideas on why this is happening and how I can fix it? (I don't think this always used to happen.)
Thanks!

Hi yesterday I ran into the same issue because I inexperience it as annoying I dived in to find out what is happening and did some testing. This problem is only apparent when iPhoto is witched in "Film rolls view" menu -> view -> Film rolls: switched on.
I appearers that when you are importing photos iPhoto remembers the order in which rolls are created. When no keyword is selected, rolls are orded in the way you aticipated, on roll date. The order can be chanced by chancing the date of the film roll.
When a keyword is selected in the keywords list (left bottom in the source list when you press the key shaped button) the rolls are not anymore in date order, but in order you have imported them.
I think this is unexpected behavior of iPhoto, I would call this a minor, but a bit annoying bug, maybe it's just overlooked by the developers and I hope it will be fixed soon. Cause this combine film roll, keyword view is very, very handy, when it is sorted in the proper way, that is by date of film roll.

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