Works with 80,000 images!

We just tested '06 by importing 81,686 images (many of them 5-7 MB) into a single iPhoto '06.
- Large batches were imported with no errors.
- Everything seems to work, and performance is quite reasonable.
- There doesn't seem to be any significant difference in performance compared to an identical system with a library of only 5000 images.

re: I did have some problems with the date of the catalogs not matching the date of the files in them.
Hmmm. I read your post in another thread about your iView/iPhoto workflow. I experimented on a test system with a small library of "aliased-not-imported" files, using Photoshop to modify images but not names. Based on errors I saw in my test I wonder, does your workflow introduce the date errors?
Didn't iPhoto 5 get its date information (for the calendar display and such) from the dates of the folders in its directory hierarchy? If so, won't it get confused it you change files (and change the create/mod dates) inside its folders? More so if (with the don't import option) there are only aliases in the iPhoto library and you are making changes to the real files? See what I'm getting at?
I'd like to understand this better, but I've got no shortage of disk space (huge drives are so wonderfully cheap these days!) and I'm satisfied for now with the advantages of copying everything into iPhoto, so I probably won't do more tests--counting on you to explain it to us, Toad!
Thanks,
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