Export Pics AND retain directory structure

I'd like to use Bridge to manage the photos I put onto my iPod, here's the general workflow:
All pictures are stored in directories by event (date) in the /pictures/ folder, for example:
/pictures/2008-07-01 Hike in Woods
/pictures/2008-07-02 Bike in Woods
/pictures/2008-07-05 Meeting with Tiger Woods
Here's what I'd like to do:
I rate all my pictures in Bridge using Color Labels (Green=Good, Yellow=Just OK, Red=Bad.
I'd like to use Bridge to select all "Good" pictures taken this year (easy to do using Search), but the rub is that I'd like to export these pictures but retain the directory structure. For example, I have a directory where I store all my pictures for my iPods and I'd like to retain the folder structure so that I can easily browse just my Good pictures on my iPod:
/iPodPictures/
/iPodPictures/2008-07-01 Hike in Woods
/iPodPictures/2008-07-02 Bike in Woods
/iPodPictures/2008-07-05 Meeting with Tiger Woods
This way, I can have iTunes monitor the /iPodPictires folder when I sync and copy over any pictures I move there, but only copy over the Good pictures and keep the rest off my iPod.
If I just do a Search, all the files show up in 1 window, and when I export, they are all put into 1 directory, which isn't easy to browse.
Any ideas how I can accomplish this using Bridge? I also own LightRoom, so if there are ways I could use that instead of Bridge, that would work as well.
Thanks!

I started simmilar thread in Lightroom Feature Requests few months ago, but can't find it anymore since new forum version...
What I can suggest as a new feature is export to directory structure from collections or second option from keywords. Probably more usable and easier to implement would be from collections.
What I need it to export many photos to different directories pretty often, and this would be great help since I could arrange them in collections and collection sets. Then select collection set and export it in a manner that collection set would be main export directory, and each collection within the set would be exported to its own folder within main collection set export folder.
This would be much appreciated feature in near future
Thank you for great product by the way

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