IPhoto won't keep photos in the relevant album

iMac 2011, iPhoto'11 Version 9.5.1, OS 10.9.4
What I successfully used to do: Launch iPhoto; Open a newly created album on the left of its big window; Drag a photo (jpg or tiff) from a system folder on the Desktop on to that iPhoto big window; It appears. I can then switch to another iPhoto album and back again to the newly created iPhoto album and the new photo re-appears as expected.
What happens now: I do the above but when I switch to another iPhoto album and back againback to the newly created iPhoto album (as described above), the photo is missing in iPhoto's big window. I find the missing photo in iPhoto > Recent > Last Import. If I drag it from Last Import on to the newly created iPhoto album (on the left of iPhoto's big window), a new sub-folder is created "untitled album 2" and selected and the image appears in iPhoto's big window. The new photo also appears in iPhoto > Library > Events and Photos. If I delete the new photo from Events and Photos (Delete then CNTRL + click on Trash), it disappears from there but is still in the "untitled album 2" (above). All this is weird behaviour.
If instead I open an already existing iPhoto folder which contains other photos, and drag the same photo into its big window, it is added to that folder in the usual way, with no need to drag it from Last Import and "untitled album 2" is not created created.
Something is seriously wrong here. The App Store says that Version 9.5.1 is the current version.
How can I return to doing what I successfully used to do for many years as described above?
Thanks for any help.       

I think I have found the answer. What I had done was to create a FOLDER "Summer Holiday 2014" and a sub-FOLDER "Seaside" and a sub-FOLDER in that for my photos. That was the way that did not work.
I have just created an ALBUM "Summer Holiday 2014" and a sub-ALBUM "Seaside". This seems to work.
But suppose I want to create the following hierarchy:
Heading
               Sub heading
                    Sub-sub heading 1
                         Photos
                    Sub-sub heading 2
                         Photos
Which of these four items in bold should be created as folders and which albums?
Here is an image of the above layout in case the indentation did not work:

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