Bridge CS4 Photo Downloader

I like the organizational feature of Photo Downloader to place photos in a subdirectory based on metadata in the image.  However, I can only do this when reading from a camera or media card.
Is there any way to trick Photo Downloader to do this with other media (existing subdirectory, external drive, or DVD)?
If not, is there another way to feed a bunch of photos to Bridge and have them moved into dynamically created subdirectories based on metadata critera?
Thanks in advance,
scotto

Thanks, John.
I did do a search before posting but didn't find an answer.  My alternate way of doing this is in Unix with a shell script and DCRAW, but in trying to create a standard workflow, I realized this was one place that complicates things.
Again, thanks for taking the time to reply.
scotto

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