Importing folders into albums (PE7) & keeping structure

hi,
Is there any way to import folders (w/pix) into photoshop elements 7 albums while keeping the folder structure in albums?
For example:
Folders
2009
+--> Jan
+--> Feb
+----> Kids
+----> animals
to the same but in Albums?
thanks
Jason

By the way, you can't find photos that are in two albums via searching using PSE commands.
In PSE 7, you can do this using the the Find > By Details command. But it's very clumsy, especially if you have lots of albums. It's a lot easier to do with tags.
You also can't limit a search to within an album, but you can limit a search to within a specific tag.
In PSE 7, sometimes you can use the Organize pane, but often you have to resort to the Find > By Details page.
For example, to find all the photos in an album containing a certain tag, first click the album and then the tag. If you want to find all the photos with a tag within a given time range, you can click the tag and then Find > Set Date Range. But that won't work with albums -- clicking an album clears any date range, so you'll have to use Find > By Details, which is tedious.
But your high-level point still holds in PSE 7: Adobe designed albums and tags for different purposes, and albums aren't full citizens when it comes to search.
Interestingly, the last Adobe PSE survey asked several questions about albums, indicating that the product manager is aware that there is confusion in the product design betwen tags and albums. I think Adobe has worked themselves into a corner: In PSE 6, they changed the name "collection" to "album" in an attempt to use a name that had more meaning to the typical user. But new users approach the product not knowing what tags are but thinking that they know what an "album" is, so of course they're going to use an "album", not a "tag". And then they discover their organization is crippled by all the restrictions PSE places on albums.

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