Aperture storing and sorting woes

Hello!
I have some trouble coming to terms with Aperture's library, vaults and storing capabilities.
My question is this:
How can I make Aperture keep my pictures folder organized, without having to store the photos in a photo-library file ?
I would like to have my photos store on one computer, while being able to display them on another, so I have selected to store the files outside of Aperture's library, so that the files are referenced, and the library file itself is small enough to be copied.
A bit of a "hack" if you will, but it is apparently the only way to do something like that.
Now, because of this, I have no way of sorting my photos.
When importing, I can select a folder into which the photos will be dumped, but afterwards, if I move them in Aperture, they stay in the same position. Yes, I know its pretty obvious but my problem is this:
I import a lot of photographs with photos of say, a MacBook and an iPod, I would first like to dump them in a folder/album called "unsorted", and then latter, move the MacBook photos into a folder/album called MacBook, and the iPod photos into an iPod album.
But if I do so, the photos themselves stay where they were.

This is not how Aperture works. Instead of fighting with it I would recommend learning how it does work and then making decisions on how you could make the best use of it's features.
These may help you:
http://photo.rwboyer.com/2008/09/managing-aperture-2-on-multiple-computers/
http://photo.rwboyer.com/2008/07/apple-aperture-21-organization/
http://photo.rwboyer.com/2008/10/aperture2-vs-lightroom2-file-management/
RB

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