Getting consistent PSD exports of layers

Any tips for managing my Illustrator layers so I get consistent PSD exports?
Opening an Illustrator-created PSD gives me a lot of layers named <path>, single text layers in <group> folders, and some layers that have combined several layers named: <text> + <path> + <path> + <path> + <path>.
How can I make sure that single text layers aren't in <Groups> folders and that objects aren't combined into <path> + <path> + <path> + <path> single layers?

Not using any opacity. No clipping masks. No blending modes. No pathfinder, Live Paint, or symbols.
As an AE user, Mylesnium, I'm sure you can appreciate keeping elements modularly grouped. My usual workflow is to export from Illustrator to PSD, then import the PSD into AE as a comp. It allows text to become editable and PSD folders become AE Precomps. There's no way to do such things with a direct Illustator to AE import. (Text cannot become live and AE only interprets Illustrator's Top Layer as a layer so any sub-layer groupings get lost).
I think the biggest gotcha is something I just read, "Any layer with more than 5 sub-layers will be flattened" UGH!

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| Id | Operation                    | Name         | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
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XM172P0                        PER_ID                                       1
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Execution Plan
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| Id | Operation              | Name         | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT       |              |    27 | 4536 |    14   (8)| 00:00:01 |
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|   6 |       TABLE ACCESS FULL| CI_ACCT_CHAR | 2686 |   157K|    12   (0)| 00:00:01 |
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call     count       cpu    elapsed       disk      query    current        rows
Parse        2      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
Execute      1      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
Fetch      178      0.07       0.05          0       2754          0        2649
total      181      0.07       0.05          0       2754          0        2649
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SQL*Net message to client                     179        0.00          0.00
SQL*Net message from client                   179        0.00          0.08
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