Working with iPhoto pix in iMovie '11

Two questions on working with iPhoto pictures in iMovie '11:
Is there a way to control the sort order of pictures in an iPhoto event in iMovie '11? Or, looking at it from a different perspective, how does iMovie '11 sort photos when I'm browsing an iPhoto event? iMovie has the photos in a different order than iMovie and I can't figure out how it's determinig sort order. I'd like the photos in iMovie to use the same sort order that iPhoto uses. The next best option would be to have iMovie sort by photo name. Just as background, the sort order I set in iPhoto is "By Title." Before import into iPhoto, I changed the titles of some photos that I know will not be used in iMovie so that they sort to the end of an event.
How do I navigate from one iPhoto event to another? I must be missing something basic...when I need to move from one event to another, I have to select another iPhoto choice (such as "Photos" or "Last Import") and then select "Events" again.
Thanks.

For Question #1, an album definitely helped. In iPhoto, I highlighted all 19 events in this particular library, selected File>New Album, and set the sort order by title. Back in iMovie, the list of photos was sorted the same.
Regarding Question #2, I figured out why iMovie was acting the way it was. I had increased the height of the photo viewer/browser pane so that the source list collapsed to a single drop-down. So the source list that normally looks like this:
...became this:
I don't think iMovie is set to allow you to go back to the list of all events without selecting some other item in the drop-down first. When the viewer pane is lowered so that the source list looks like the first screen above, you can click on Events and have it return to the list of all events.
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