How to organize media and project?

Hi every one
I have a couple of questions regarding planning & organization of files/folder:
Presently, I have organized as Macintosh>Users>Home>LaCie>Project.
And within the Projects I have logged & captured clips.
When I hit the Project the browser opens where clips are organized.
questions:
1. Is this an efficient way of organizing the Media & its elements? If not, what and how the best way are: Please give me an example
2. How can I bring the Project and its elements & Media file into a folder? In the finder I don't see any folder/files except the User Folder and the Project Icon.
3. If I want to import some of the elements of one project into another project iin the Browser I cannot do it unless I have to import the entire Project with its elements. How can I import elements of different project and even Media file? Thank you for your help. Faruk

I have the main macintosh HD, and 2 internal hardrives... one labelled "Capture" and the other labelled "Render"
the way i setup my files are as follows.
1. on the Render drive, i made a folder titled "FCP Projects" within that folder I create another folder for every project I create complete with "Pics" folders "Audio" folders and whatever outside elements you want to bring in to your session..... this keeps all those files in one place when you go to archive them.
1a. Within the FCP projects folder (along with my project folders) I created a "-FCP Files-" folder.....I use the dashes to keep the folder at the top of the list.. This is where I tell FCP to send all audio render, autosaves, render files, thumbnail cashes, and wave form cashes to...... for all projects. Basically everything but the capture scratches..... that goes on the Capture harddrive.
2. when I archive a project.... all I take is the project folder from the Render drive with all the pics and audio.... and ignore the fcp files (even the render files) then on the capture harddrive... i back up the capture scratch folder for the specific project.....
3. if you ever HAVE to load the session back to re edit.... you'll have all the media but need to re render......
hope that made sense...... I'll attempt to confuse you even more by making a crappy diagram.... but it's worked great for me.
RENDER DRIVE
_FCP Projects
__-FCP Files-
__Audio Render
__Autosave Vault
__Render Files
__Thumbnail Cashe
__Waveform Cashe
__Project 1 (Archive this folder and its capture scratch)
__Pics
__Audio
__Session File
__Project 2 (Archive this folder and its capture scratch)
__Pics
__Audio
__Session File
CAPTURE DRIVE
-FCP Files-
__Capture Scratch
_Project 1 (automatically crated by FCP)
_Project 2 (automatically crated by FCP)
G5 dual 2.7 - 17in MBP   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

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