How can I get around iPhoto's inherent organization???

OK, I admit, I am extremely anal about how my photos are organized. I like them in a standard folder hierarchy (year/event/photos), but iPhoto doesn't allow me to do that. I don't want to have rolls and tags.
I have been using Canon ImageBrowser for years, and I love that it lets me see the hierarchy window, and organize, view & edit photos within the organizational framework I set up. But it does not work anymore in OSX 10.4
Does anyone know how to make iPhoto do that, or assuming I can't, does anyone know of a program that would allow me to do everything that ImageBrowser did but works in OSX 10.4?
zach

Zach:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. If you want a hierarchical system you can do it with the Folder system in the Source pane. You can create folders in that window and put folders inside folder. The you'll have to create albums of your rolls and put them in the appropriate folder or sub folder as shown here. That's the closest you can get to the hierarchical system you want. If you import your current folder system, each folder containing photos will import as a roll with the same title as the folder. You'll then have to create an album of that roll and put in a year folder that you've created in the Source window.
Or, use iView MediaPro which will catalog your image files and maintain the folder system that you've created as seen here (Finder) and here (iView).
Then you can use iPhoto in it's alias mode on your source files to make books, calendars, cards, etc. and iView as the primary management tool.

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