Importing Adobe Photoshop Album SE Albums into iPhoto

Is this possible? I've got a ton of images that I organized in Adobe PASE using the albums feature, not tags. I see that iPhoto has a very similar system, but so far as I can see, there's no easy way to bring that organization over save manually. Please don't tell me I've got to do this all over! I've got everything from reference photos to my artwork to desktop images and collections of work by my favorite artists (a total of over 9000 images) organized just the way I like it in PASE, and it took me weeks to do back when I first installed he program. I just got my new MacPro a couple weeks ago, and this is one of the major things I haven't been able to get settled. I brought all the pictures themselves over to the Pictures folder, but I'm at a loss to get those SASE albums in, save by hand. Any ideas?

Taellosse:
Can you assign keywords to those photos in PASE and write them to the file themselves? If so you can keyword each album before bringing over to the Mac. Then, once in iPhoto, you can create Smart Albums based on a keyword or search for a keyword and create a regular album for them.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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