Wrong File Names to iPhoto

I made a slideshow in iPhoto from images that I have in Aperture. I Did a Batch Name Change in Aperture to rename the files. When I showed selected my Aperture images in a new slideshow in iPhoto and ran the slideshow with "Show Titles" the filenames were the original filenames and not the filenames that I had changed in Aperture! How can I get the correct filenames to display?
Kevin Hawkins
PS - I also posted this on the iPhoto Discussion

Kevin Hawkins wrote:
I Did a Batch Name Change in Aperture to rename the files.
Kevin,
I suspect that this is the cause of the problem - as I recall, you cannot rename files in Aperture (except for at import time). What you've probably done is to change the caption or version name, which is not the same thing.
You probably need to investigate the iPhoto slideshow options to see if it can use the caption and not the file name.
Regards,
Steve

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