Image copy to folder with name based on image creation date

Hi all,
I am new to Mac OS X and automator so I would like to know the following,
Is it possible to have an automated action that triggers when I attach my camera to USB, and who copies all images to a folder which is named according to the date when the image was created?
Example:
I attach my camera and it shows up as disk image named "NIKON D70" and the images are contained in subfolders "DCIM/100NCD70" (or actually in DCIM/*). I then want all images in these folders copied to my home directory in a subdirectory called something like "Pictures/D70/2007/20070605" where the year folder name and the date folder name should be according to current image creation date (which of course can be different for each image).
I have created a simple automation script that copies images from my camera to a folder named according to current date, but that's not good enough.
Anybody having any hints or ideas of how I can accomplish this?
Regards
Anders
Mac Pro, 2x2.66GHz, 5GB, ATI X1900 XT Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Open the AppleScript Editor in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and run:
tell application "Finder"
repeat with this_file in (get files of window 1)
set the_date to creation date of this_file
set folder_name to ((year of the_date as string) & "-" & day of the_date & "-" & month of the_date)
try
make new folder in window 1 with properties {name:folder_name}
end try
move this_file to folder folder_name
end repeat
end tell
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