Import directly to an album?

Is there a way to import from a digital camera, directly into an album? As opposed to having to move photos into an album after iPhoto imports them into the library.
Thanks!
- Ben
p.s. I don't know if this would make a difference, but my iPhoto library is on my firewire drive.

Ben,
If you set Image Capture to do nothing when a camera is detected you can drag the photos from your camera/card in the left side of iPhoto which will create an album and a roll at the same time. However, I would count the steps as it's more than letting iPhoto do its thing and then creating an album.
Hope this helped!
Sam

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Are there two questions here?
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Dave
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