From light table to album - am I missing something?

I've just started using light table to organise a large number of shots from a recent trip away. I have found it really useful to group photos from particular locations that we visited more than one time over the course of a few days (i.e. ordering them by date would separate them from each other), and also to assign keywords to distinct groups of images.
So I end up with a great layout for my album/slideshow, with all the images ordered just as I want them.
What next?
If I select all and create a new album from the light table, it just dumps the whole lot in there in Date order (back to square one). "Manual" ordering is greyed out and there's no option to maintain the order I've carefully chosen in the light table.
If I try taking one small group of images at a time and dragging/dropping them to an empty album, of course it just drags the images further and further into the blank canvas of the light table.
What am I doing wrong? Why would Aperture have a light table to work on organising photos on if you then can't actually use that work elsewhere within the application?
Am I missing a trick here?
Thanks
Giles

Hi Giles. Good questions.
Light Table are Albums, just as are Slideshows, Books, Web Pages, etc.
To create a new Album from any selection, use the command "File→New→ ... "
Light Tables are great for grouping images. They are not useful (afaict) for sorting images. As you've discovered, your sort order is lost when you move the images to another Album.
The solution is to change your workflow. Group items on a Light Table, then select the group you want and create a new Slideshow (for instance) and set the sort order manually in the Slideshow editor.
You might want to experiment with using Grid view (rather than Filmstrip view, which I think is the default) in the Slideshow editor. I've found setting it up as a vertical panel 3 columns of images wide works well. I'll post a screen shot as soon as I figure out how the new editor handles images.
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