Importing Photographs and Storage of same?

I have become increasingly disillusioned with how iPhoto stores photographs and generally manages them, but I like its presentation, and the ease of creating smart albums. I've investigated almost every other possible option on the market but for management, iPhoto seems to be best.
My question is this:
If I choose to import photographs and NOT copy them to iphoto (which I have done with a large number of photographs this morning)... in the future when I choose to open a camera in iphoto, will the photographs be copied to the existing folders, or will the photographs be placed in the iphoto library? I don't want them there, I want them to be in the Pictures folder, under their year/month/day folders.
I am prepared to use imagecapture.app to import them, and import manually to iPhoto later, if necessary.
Thanks for any help

iPhoto is definitely not the app for you.
I wanted to simplify things, and make it easier to get rid of stuff I dont want...
That's what the iPhoto trash is for.
like duplicates of every file I edit (and god help me if I edit more than once).
Iphoto (and Lightroom is the same btw) is all about a managed, lossless workflow. Key to that is preserving the original file at all costs. You might want to consider why, if you want to directly edit original files, you are using applications specifically designed to prevent you doing that.
Also, I do access the Library and I hate the fact that Lion has made it inaccessible unless you use third party applications to get in there.
There is no need to use 3rd party apps to access the Library, so frankly, I'm not sure what you mean here. Lion didn't change the layout of the Library, this changed back in 2007 with iPhoto 08. And, again, as you seem to want to directly access the files via the Finder, it's clear that you'll be happier using a File Manager rather than a Photo Manager.
I would caution you though, you're confusing these files with the Photos therein, and it's going to cause you problems if you use a Photo Manager.
So much crud gets left behind when you are uninstalling applications, access is needed for a darn good cleanout from time to time.
Well there are a couple of interesting thoughts in there. One, this is the iPhoto Library you're talking about, so what that has to do with uninstalling applications I have no idea, and two, I've no idea what the computer version of a "darn good cleanout" actually is.
As far as iPhoto shots are concerned, I like to back them up on a separate drive which is not associated with the iPhoto library at all, and I dont see a thing wrong with this
Nothing wrong with it at all. Have you explore the File -> Export options for doing this? No?
Its not Apple's way... its MY way. And it wont affect my shots at all.
So, it is Apple's way too. There you go.

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