Unorganized photos!

I recently uploaded an entire comic series onto my iPad, only to find all of the pages out of order. I went back into the original file on my desktop and noticed that the upload times for each file were more or less sporadic (I.e. Page 2 uploaded at 7:45 p.m., page 3 uploaded 6:59 p.m.) so on and so forth.
I then double checked the pages on my iPad and realized that they were organized by TIME and not file name.
How do I fix this? Because I'd already wasted half an hour changing the file names before realizing it did diddly squat about the time.
Help!

This may help:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4221?viewlocale=en_US
(iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Synced photos appear in wrong order)

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.Thankfully, I was able to save these photos but they are now a jumble. Every photo spawned 5 or so derivatives- face photos, PM, etc
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Rob, this sounds like it would work. I downloaded it and installed it and am having trouble editing the advanced settings... I have no idea what to put in the "FROM-PATH" area. Would this be "/Volumes/2TB HD/AUTO RESTORATION?" When I tried that, the plugin did nothing. Any tips on how to get this working?
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Message was UPDATED by: Rob Cole

I would like to copy my iphoto events library to my external hard drive as events not just thousands of individual photos. :)

Basically when I try to highlight events in iphoto and drag them to my external drive it takes them out of their events and puts them into the external hard drive as individual photos. This is way too unorganized for my liking and it would take me days to get them all sorted again. Isn't there a way to have them just go right to the external drive in their defined events?
thanks

If using iPhoto 11 then you can do this with the File -> Export command:
File -> Export
This User Tip
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921
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I'm not sure what you mean by moving pictures from D: drive to PS 3... PSA
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>Or I can load them into photo shop from a CD.
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