Automatically generating a comp for imported image sequences

hi, i'm quite new to After Effects scripting so bear with my newbieness;)
Basically i have a long list of shot folders which each contain a number of render layer folders which contains image sequences. I realised after a while that it is extremely tedious opening each shot folder and dragging the render layer folders into after effects, then creating a comp for them and also a shot folder for the sequences. Doing this for 60 shots individually takes hours and is boring.
Is there a way to run a script that can import all the shot folders in one big batch and then After Effects splits them up into their own seperate comps so i dont have to do it manually?
Any help or suggestions on this would be great,
thanks,
Sam

thanks myrslok, that was really helpful. I installed Immigration and then discovered it doesnt work with after effects 7.0. (which im on). Is there a way around this, because i saw the demo for Immigration and it looks great
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