Ipad and managing photos

I am really trying to like the apple system for managing and editing photos but every time I try to use iphoto, itunes and photos on the ipad to do something relaitvely simple, I hit a brick wall. Searching various discussion groups often give hope but more often shows many, many ,many people are having the same frsutrations as I am. Does apple have the slightest concern about the actual requirements of its user base?
I am using an ipad 1 (5.1.1) and a macbook pro (snow leopard). On the ipad, I have laoded soem photos from a camera sd card and arranged them into albums.
What I want to do is to import them into iphoto on the MBP and add captions (using Preview as an external editor) and then put them back into the same albums (replacing the original photos) on the ipad. This sort of thing can be done quickly, easily and almost without thinking on a pc.
When I load the photos form the ipad into iphoto, it splatters them who knows where and loses all album structure.
(As a side problem, once the download to iphoto has been done and I eject my ipad, I cannot reconnect my ipad to the MBP without rebooting the MBP - only apple knows why).
When I compare the photos shown as imported from my ipad in iphoto with the photos shown in the "All Imported" album on the ipad, both lists contain 160 photos but some are different. Why?
I want to be able to order my photos on my ipad so that they appear in reverse data order. I can't do this basic simple thing. Why not?
Are there any apple afficionados out there who can set me straight and show me that apple is flexible enough to do what I want, or is it the case of do it apple's way or not at all?
PS please don't suggest updating to later versions of the OS as from other discussions, the problems I have a certainly not solved by later versions and are probably exacerbated by them.

When you delete a photo from the camera roll it is deleted from any albums that contain it. This is because the albums don't contain actual photos; they only contain links to the photo in the camera roll. When the cameral roll photo is deleted, the link to it is removed form any albums as well.
Also, photos only remain in my photo stream for 30 days, and if you delete a photo stream photo from your device it is also deleted from iCoud and all other devices.
Photos added to a shared stream will remain in iCloud indefinitely, the will be at a lower resolution than the original. And the shared stream album will also remain on your phone.
For all these reasons, you can really use iCloud to archive your photos and free up space on your device. Instead, import them to your computer while they are still in the camera roll, as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083. If you want to be able to still view them, get a Flikr account (or similar) so you can view them as a gallery from the web.

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