Importing Photos from Pictures Album revisited

Quite a while ago, I posted a question about my Aperture's lack of ability to import from the "Pictures" folder.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1540299&tstart=0
I took a close look today, and I solved the problem. I noticed that when I navigated to the Pictures folder, there were only two entries, and neither of them actually existed in my Pictures. Further, when I selected them, Aperture told me it couldn't find specific folders within *the iPhoto library*. Whoa!
So, somehow, there is a rogue AlbumData.xml file in my Pictures folder. This file belongs in an iPhoto library, but it somehow ended up (accidental drag and drop? iPhoto Library Manager? Maybe I'll never know) at the top level of Pictures. Aperture then mistook my entire Pictures folder for an iPhoto library, and a broken one at that. It did not parse any other folder in the Pictures folder because, well, it was an iPhoto library.
Solution? Get rid of the AlbumData.xml file in Pictures. Now I can import from Pictures!
nathan

Terence,
I have a folder called "Panos" containing the photos I want as referenced. When I drag that folder into the "Documents" shortcut in Finder, my path (According to "Get Info" of one of the photos) is
/Users/nathananderson/Documents/Panos
In this case, I can navigate to the Panos folder from Aperture and import photos.
When I put my photos into Pictures, the path is:
/Users/nathananderson/Pictures/Panos
And using Aperture, I navigate to the Pictures folder that is in the same level as Documents. Aperture shows me nothing but "Last Import" and "Library". There is no other folder to select!
When composing this message, I also found out that I have three other folders in my Pictures folder. These other three folders are not Aperture or iPhoto library folders, and they are also unavailable for "Import Photos" from Aperture.
nathan

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