Yeah, I figure this might make the face detection get really bizarre for that "Not a face" pseudo-person, but so far it doesn't appear to be making the recognition worse for any of the real people.

As for the Smart Album trick, that's easy enough to do, and I think that this site ran example of how to do it recently. Anyway, if your iPhoto is up to date (8.0.2 right now; this wasn't available in 8.0 and I'm not sure if it was in 8.0.1), then create a Smart Album, select the Face property, then "is", then "unnamed".

Does that not do what you want?

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great!
yes, indeed i just toyed around with the face recognition in iphoto 8.0 and 8.0.1 but this was exactly the feature i've been missing then.

thanks!