As you've found, iPhoto is not made for editing images, much, anyway. For what you are trying to do, you might check the 'proof sheet' printing info in Help. If that function prints the "Name" you created for each image, you could go back to them and change that to the actual Date info. Most camera's save a lot of meta data with each image; date, camera settings ( flash, shutter speed, lens used, etc. ) and iPhoto uses that info for some of the stuff it tells about each image. And that's mainly because iPhoto is really a database for pictures, the meager 'editing' functions are just a taste of what you could do with a real image editing program. I highly recommend Elements for any casual and even some advanced hobbyist photographers. It's actually got 90% of the code that's in PhotoShop but many of the esoteric controls/options are left out. Unfortunately, all that code is one reason it is so slow loading!
But it's a great editing program and well supported by Adobe.
Of course, with the easy to use programs like Elements, a 'photo' is less useful as 'evidence' now days...
Please let us know if you find out anything over at the Apple iPhoto 4 threads.
