Why is iPhoto so much harder to use than Picassa?

I have been with Macs ever since they first ones appeared, grey box and all. Having being forced through circumstances in a non-Mac-friendly coutry to use, in paralell with Mac also a PC in time I downloaded Google's Picassa. I have found it easy to use. When the iPhoto came out I have tried it and found it not really user frinedly. After a 2 year gap on PC/Picassa I just bought a new MacBook Pro and transferred the Library to iPhoto. I am having a ****
of a time looking at my photos, organsing and editig them. In Picassa they are seen as chronological folders, easy to name and organise into 'events' or whateveryou fancy.
In iPhoto, when I open and go to Photos it comes with something taken months ago. No way to see the recent ones taken. When I go to Recent it it shows me somethng from 3 weeks back. When I go to Last Month at least I can see some recent ones.
Is there a way of editing iPhoto to let you see Day, Week, Month, Year etc at a glance. It is **** at the moment and unless I find a way I will switch back to Picassa. I love Macs and would never use PC in my life given a choice but am finding, trying to learn the Lion, that Apple has been has either lost its touch, has been compromising to please the Windows community or has been infested by PC-thinking nerds, down there in California... Can anyone comment and help how to make my iPhoto easy to use? Is there a tutorial so I could evaluate its potential before I dump it? Cheers.

View Menu -> Sort Photos.
Tutorials
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/photos/
Search: Click on the Search Icon and then choose Date. Now you can find the photos from any day, month or year with a click.
Events: Your photos grouped by when they were taken. Want them in a Specific Order: View Menu -> Sort Events
I can happily testify that iPhoto is easy to use - but that's not much good to you. You're used to working one way, iPhoto works differently. I'm sure I would have many of the same issues if I went the opposite direction. What iPhoto won't do is work like Picasa (and indeed vice versa) Either you can adapt to it or just use Picasa on your Mac.
Regards
TD

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