Is there an advantage to using a Project to group Albums as opposed to using a Folder?

Haperturations All!
In his answer to a question I posted a year ago, Aperture specialist RWBoyer made several savvy suggestions, including not overlooking the ability to use Projects as containers for Albums and other containers which might make up an "Output Project" (as opposed to simply holding all the photographs from a shoot). This same point was made by another sophisticated user in another thread.
At the time, this went over my head. I'm now revisiting it. I can find only two advantages to using Projects instead of Folders for this purpose. They are:
. the icon in the Library stands out
. Projects have a Project description field. I use these all the time, and would love to have such a field available for Folders (and -- ahemApple -- would love to be able to use these new-fangled hard returns in the description field).
The disadvantages I see are:
. There doesn't seem to be any way to have a key photo for the Project (remember, the Project does not directly contain any images).
. Selecting the Project in the Library does not show the images in the Project in the Browser (selecting a Folder does).
To me, that's a draw.
Comments? Suggestions? Elephants in the room?
Thanks.

Good point. That's why I didn't even look into using Projects in this way so far. The answer -- not really important -- is that I have entirely separate "trees" in my Library. One is for input, where "one Project = one shoot", and one is for output, where I have folders for clients, fine art, etc. The differentiation between the two uses of the Aperture item "Project" is by location in the Library.
The reason this isn't important is that there doesn't seem to be a strong enough advantage (or perhaps any) to using Projects in this way. I brought it up because those who recommended it
RWBoyer, and
Grant Symon
know what they are talking about.

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