Creating Albums in A2: Strange behavior, bug or operator error

I've just bought A2 and imported my 13,000 photos into it. They are imported as "referenced masters". On disk, my photos are arranged in folders by year, month and day that the pictures were taken:
Photos/
....2008/
....2007/
........01/
........05/
........10/
............IMG1.NEF
............IMG2.NEF
............IMG3.NEF
The only way to import directories of photos into A2 is "Import folders as projects" (It seems like you should be able to just import all the photos in a directory tree, but apparently you can't. Why not?)
Anyway, so now I have a bunch of projects, one for each year. Then folders for each month and albums for each day. This is only mildly useful since I could create smart albums, but... (Is there a way to get rid of the projects without losing the photos? Can I delete them all and leave the photos in my library?)
Anyway, the next thing I wanted to do was to create some folders of albums of my photos. I'm a hobbiest and I take most of my photos when I travel. I wanted to create an album for each "trip" I went on. So, for example, I went to Southeast Asia in October of 2004.
I created a (root level) folder called "Trips". Then I created an album called "Southeast Asia 2004". I selected the folder named "10" (i.e. October) in project "2004" and selected all the photos. (I apparently hadn't taken any other pictures in October 2004 besides what I had done on my trip). I dragged the selection to my new album and saw a "+" icon (as if to say "add these photos to this album"). When I released the mouse button, it did nothing. I couldn't add the photos to my album.
After screwing around for a while, I found that I could not add photos to an album unless I selected them from a higher level in the project tree. So if I created my album as a child of 2004, I couldn't add photos selected from 2004/10. But I could add them if I selected them from within 2004. Similarly, I couldn't add photos to my album at Trips/SoutheastAsia unless I selected them from "All Photos" under "Library."
Maybe I'm not understanding what folders and projects are /supposed/ to be. But this doesn't make sense to me. Is this intentional? Is it a bug? Can someone explain the reasoning behind this -- or tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks!
tim

Aarrgghh. I know part of the problem is that I don't quite grok Aperture's model yet. But, still, something is not right.
I had created a new project called "Trips". In that project I created an album. If I selected photos from the "All Photos" smart album, I could put them in that album in that other project. But the photos still weren't in that other project. Just the album. This seems wrong, but I'm not sure.
So, instead of creating a project called Trips, I created a top-level folder. In that, I created an album for my one trip. Once again, I could select photos from another project. When I dragged them to the new album, I got a green "+". But when I dropped them, nothing happened. But, if I drag them from "All Photos" it works.
That can't be right. If I can put photos from any project into an album, I should be able to do it from anywhere. If I can't, I shouldn't be able to do it from "All Photos." If anyone knows which is right, let me know. Also, if anyone knows how to file a bug, let me know -- I will file this one with a good use case description.
Thanks,
tim

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