Iphoto and Olympus E-1

I want to start afresh with the new E1 camera
my problem or problems.
Now I have a mac and the applications I have are as follows
iphoto, cs2, olympus viewer.
What i want is for me to be able to plug the E1 in and open iphoto ( is the new iphot6 anygood?) first whether RAW or jpeg and save them in a logical manner ( i don't do this yet not sure of iphoto) then if i need to conert RAW's to go to either cs2 or olympus viewer ( which is best, do i need studio) and to be able to find the photos easily ( again not something i can do easy at the moment....
What i do at the moment is open image capture and just down load all the photo's into a folder i make before called 'hloiday 2005' for instance. there must be some more organized people out there please help me with some ideas of how to best use my applications to thier best
thanks
nic

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