If you are anything like me, you will eventually find yourself importing pictures from a source other than directly from a digital camera. This may not seem like much of a problem until you understand that the "rolls" that iPhoto defines its file structure from the process of importing pictures. If you import files from somewhere other than a camera it is named with an arbitrary roll number. The roll name is then used to define the file structure. This will eventually grow out-of-hand. Here's what you do to avoid this messy situation.
1. Open iPhoto
2. Select View->Film Rolls (shift-apple-F)
3. Drag individual or groups of photos (including the header for a roll, which will take all of the pictures within) and drag it to another roll's header
4. If you wish to rename a roll, as is often the case, click a roll's header and extend the information (little 'i') from the bottom left corner. You can see that the title of the roll is shown in this information, from which you may edit it at your leisure
That should be all you need. When you reopen iPhoto it may ask you to re-index or re-organize your thumbnails.
The resulting file structure should look like this:
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