Dates and Times

Hello. Here is what I do and my problem. Lets say I have a directory of 100 images in a directory that I am going to add to my online photo album. I want to run these images through some image optimization to reduce the size and enhance the colors. BUT, when I do this, the modified date of the image gets changed to the current date. My online photoalbum uses this modifed date as the pictures date. So after my pictures are all uploaded to my online photo gallery, the dates are not correct and pictures are not in any date order.

So, is there a way to tell photoshop to NOT update this date when modifying an image?

What are all of your processes for modifying images and tracking the actual image date?

I've never seen this option for Photoshop, however, I do know of another program that is considerably faster and lightwieght that can complete this task. It's called irfanview, www.irfanview.com It's an excellent little piece of free software, I find it incredibly useful for small or repetitive tasks. ( resizing, cropping, common filters )

Oh, and of course, it deals with batch processing also