Wow, why is it make it impossible to get to my photo library in iLife 08?

For instance, I want to upload some photos to WalMart to print. But, I can't drill into my library to select a photo.
I want to delete this version and go back to the older one. Sort of how I feel about iMovie too...
Any help anyone can give would be appreciated.
Steve

I don't think I can change your opinion, but I felt I should chime in some support for the new packaging here...
I've been posting to the board for a couple of years now, and lurking around reading stuff for years before that. The single most common problem for users was the huge mess caused by an open folder library. I don't doubt that you know your way around. But you're the exception.
If the library is merely a folder, users not as familiar with iPhoto feel they can go in there just like they can into any other folder in their user account, and move stuff around, rename folders etc. If I had a dollar for every user who did that...
Personally, I don't see any sense in going to my Originals folder and copying stuff for mailing or printing because I do edit many of my photos and my photos are divided between the Modified folder and the Originals folder. Leopard gives me access to the version of the finished image and that's convenient for most things. If I wanted to, I still can go to the image files in the Finder.
You could simply keep an alias of your Originals or Modified folder outside the iPhoto Library package if you really wanted a shortcut to the contents. Or ctrl-click the photo in iPhoto and choose to go directly to the file. For my parents or some other friends and relatives, this "gated" approach works much better and saves hours of my life that I would have spent restoring order in their libraries. To me, that is typical Apple user-friendliness. Ever since I found out that Pages and Keynote documents were also packages, I've been wishing for iPhoto Libraries to be packaged.
I'm sure there's no way to please everyone, but I'm happy to have hours of my life back. That's just my experience.

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