How is Aperture or iPhoto suitable for my slide scanning project?

Hi!
I am confused as to what program to use for my project; I have many hundreds of slides/films/photos I will be scanning but I will make this as simple as possible. Let's say this is what I have done so far:
1) Scan slides from 10 Kodak carousels and save as 18MB TIFFs ~2400dpi or greater. These are numbered Tray 1 001, Tray 2 001, Tray 3 001 etc. and each tray has 140 slides. However, please note that these slides are mixed up within and sometimes between individual trays, i.e. some are from 1960 birthday parties, 1977 hiking trip, 1968 Christmas, etc. (There is no way I will arrange them before scanning!)
2) Bring them into PSE 8 and do editing. Post editing, save as a separate JPG which is now 6 MB in size, and with the same name except of course the .jpg extension. Store the TIFFs on external HD.
3) This is where I am stuck! I need to completely rearrange these JPG-images and give them more descriptive names. If I do not use Aperture or iPhoto, I would probably make 10 separate folders, drag JPGs into these folders and their subfolders, relabel the JPGs, do more shuffling, and be done....but my arm would fall off by then.
Can you give me an idea of how my workflow would go if instead of step 3, I brought these mixed-up JPGs into Aperture for my rearranging (and probably more editing) using keywords/projects/folders etc?
I do have one more pressing question. If I go the Aperture route and I have finished my project and I want to take my Aperture library to a computer that does not have Aperture or iPhoto (say a PC) or bring them into Lightroom or some other program, what will happen to my file structure? Will a JPG I have labeled '1968 Christmas 001' still be in its folder I have labeled 'Christmas'? Will my Masters remain labeled 'Tray 1 001 as they were when I first imported?
I use iPhoto but have not imported any of these scanned slides because I just don't think iPhoto is suitable for my project. I am also curious if Lightroom might be a viable alternative and once I have everything ordered and labeled to my satisfaction, I could then bring them into an 'iProgram' for the fun stuff.
Thanks and if anybody has any suggestions to better my workflow, feel free to comment!

If at a later time I choose to leave Aperture, can I get my files out in some semblance of the structure I have established?
Yes, Depending on the setting you give to Aperture it might not even be necessary to get them 'out', because they are not even 'in'. This is the widely discussed 'referenced' vs 'managed' topic. BTW, this only holds for the original files. Edited version always need to be 'taken out'.
If I go through the trouble of sorting all my photos and creating projects, albums, etc, when I export will it create a file structure similar to it?
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And will it export the various versions, in addition to the original files when i export it?
Yes, but not simultaneously, by hitting one button. Exporting originals (called masters in Aperture terminology) and versions are two different buttons to push.
I understand from reading other forums that with iPhoto the library structure will be lost because it is an SQL database but I'm trying to figure that out with Aperture.
This is not entirely true. Both programs will export keywords, GPS data etc. etc. iPhoto will not create a specific file structure on export, but Aperture can do that. Some people are frightened that the files are stored inside a library, where they cannot physically see the files, but both programs have the ability to store outside a library package and in a location where you can physically see your files. Of course when you stop using these programs you will loose the database benefit (i.e. fast searching on various forms of metadata and using those data for sorting), since you'll now be managing your photos again with an ordinary file manager.

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