The only time I see a date in the center is when dragging the scrollbar while viewing by Events. Maybe it got stuck for some reason. You could try going to events and dragging the scrollbar again to see if it clears it when released.
When I am in iPhoto and want to look at my pics, there is this darkish see-thru rectangle in the center of the screen that contains the date (for example, April, 2009 (which is the date the pics were taken)) - and it is really annoying and distracting as it lays right on top of the pictures I want to see and evaluate. It happens when I am in a folder looking at a bunch of pics in the folder, and also if I go full screen to look at individual pics.
Please help me solve this problem - does anybody know how to get rid of this annoying feature?

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