Big Picture Questions on Aperture usage

Hi!
My company manufactures a product that our customers are nutso about. We encourage them to take photos of themselves, and send the photos to us. We then publish them on our web site.
As a result, I receive sometimes a couple of hundred photos a month, usually via email, and of widely varying sizes/resolutions.
I then categorize these with keywords, so when I need to find an image (for an ad, brochure, whatever), I can quickly trim these 8,000 images down to a reasonable number to choose from.
My questions are thus:
1. What is the best way to get these images into Aperture? I need to import them into a project so I can sort and keyword them, but they are not all a part of a single project...
2. Is there any way to create smart albums for images that do NOT contain a specific keyword?
3. I want to create an album of images that are of print resolution (150 dpi, or more). So I create a new SmartAlbum, but what EXIF data can I use as my limit? I don't see resolution, dpi, or anything similar listed anywhere... what am I missing, here?!?
I appreciate any and all help that people can provide!
Thank you,
- CJ
Utilikilts Company
iMac G5 20" Mac OS X (10.4.5)
iMac G5 20" Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Hi CJ,
My .02¢...
Assuming you're having Aperture manage your photos (as opposed to referencing them), here is a possible workflow.
1. Create the projects you want to place the photos into, then save the photos into folders on your desktop with names that correspond to the project names.
2. Normally you'd create a smart album based on some kind of data, as opposed to non-data. Perhaps simply rating the photos you want in this album with one star, then setting up the album to look for photos with only one star.
3. DPI is done on export, as DPI is for printing not screen resolution. Screen res and dpi are different beasts. At any rate, you may want simply drag the photos your going to print into a normal album entitled PRINT, etc.
HTH

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