Stray film rolls and pics

Hi.
Was just going through my library and I have found something strange.
Sorting by rolls I have roll 92 ( May 8th 2003) next roll is 420, which also says it was imported on the same date.
Problem is there are pics in that roll from the same time but in 2005! (May 8th 2005) Also there are some Halloween pics in the same roll from October 2005. I am guessing that when I updated or installed ilife this might have happened. Any way fr me to change this?
Also when I sort by date the 2005 pics are with the 2003 pics.
(the dates on the pics are also correct...)
HELP!
Thanks

Sean:
You're probably right about the cause. You can drag a photo from one roll to another. You can also edit the date of a roll or photos by selecting it and the going to the date field in the Info window at the bottom of the Source pane. It's a bit tedious one at a time but here's no easy way. You can use the Photos->Batch Change menu option to batch change the date and time on a group of selected photos and add a user chosen time differential between each photo.
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