Images import without folder hierarchy

I have many images organized in a hierarchy of folders. Importing images works, but the folders and albums are not being created. I narrowed focus to one folder with two subfolders containing a total of 8 images. Every import technique (including dragging the folder to project pane) results in a new project with all 8 pictures but no albums containing the two groups.
What am I doing wrong? I thought Aperture can import a folder hierarchy, with the lowest level folders (containing images) becoming Aperture albums.
MacBook Pro C2D 2 GB 17" Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Problem solved.
Aperture was not creating albums corresponding to Finder folders when importing by dragging a family of folders to Library in Projects pane.
Deleted "Aperture Library.aplibrary" in Pictures folder, cleared trash and restarted. Did not solve problem.
Next time, deleted Aperture library again and also deleted relevant plists:
~\Library\Preferences\.com.apple.Aperture.plist
~\Library\Application Support\Aperture\*.plist
Restarted. Ran yasu.app (general maintenance utility). Restarted Aperture.
Dragged my test folder group to Library in Projects pane. And I get two Albums! It works!
If you have this problem (no Albums on import), first try deleting only the plists in ~\Library\Application Support\Aperture, restart Aperture and try again. That may be sufficient.
Aperture does have a bad habit I consider a bug. If you open, say, the Import window, explore pull down menu choices, and "Cancel" out of the window, it still remembers the last setting before you canceled. And some setting in that exploration can disable album creation on import. I may be wrong about that detail, but anyway, I solved my problem.

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