Event vs. photo view

I am thinking about upgrading to iLife 08 (mainly for iPhoto and its sharing and editing upgrdes).
I wanted to make sure before I did that, whether all my folders and albums within my folders will remain.
I take a great number of miscellaneous pictures in a given day that are not linked to a specific event, and believe that it will be simpler to organize them in the folders and albums that I have created for these miscellaneous pictures.
So my question is: Does iPhoto 08 eliminate my folders and albums, and if not, are they simply visible in the photo view option?
If that is the case, I imagine that I would stick to photo view.
Thanks in advance.
Russell

Basically you will find that each roll in iPhoto 6 becomes an event in 7 and your albums will be preserved as is
IF you want to further organize things events are MUCH easier than rolls to reorganize - creating new ones, spliting existing ones and merging existings one is very simple
I like the new interface much better and find the event concept easier to navagate and organize

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