Trouble sorting in alpha-numeric order

Can someone please help me figure out why iPhoto doesn't know how to sort things alpha-numerically by title?
For example, I am importing photos from my hard drive. Numbers go 1-200 as they should. However when I get into iphoto (set to sort by title), iphoto decides to go 1, 10, 100, 2, 20, 200, 3, 30, etc. Its very annoying since they are no longer in the right order. 1 should be next to 2, not 10. Computers have been ordering things in number order for ages, why is iPhoto so confused?
Are there different settings that will import things properly. I know if I was using albums, I could make sure the album is set to sort "manually" prior to importing. Then they will be in their original order. I can't do that when just importing into iphoto/events as far as I know.
Any suggestions?

iPhoto sorts jsut fine - soem human had mis-names the photos
"space" "space" 1 does not sort Alpha-Numerically to the same place a 001 - nor does 1 sort the same as 001
An Alpha Numeric sort considers both Alphabetic and Numeric characters and therefore if you want the sort to match your expectiations then you need to be sure the characters you are sorting on are correct - the conmputer can not read yoru mind and see that you do not really want an alpha-numeric sort after all
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