Layer Naming in PSE 5.0

Is there a way to set a default in PSE 5.0 somewhere to name layers by file name rather than by Layer 1, Layer 2, etc. I am using PSE 5.0 to do digital scrapbooking. Each time I add a digital element to a layout (by opening the file and then sliding it over into my layout using the move tool), I would like the layer name to default to the name of the file of that digital element. This way, I will easily be able to keep track of all the elements used in a layout to give proper credit to the designers who made the digital elements if I decide to post my layout in a web site gallery. I do know that I could edit each layer name as it is created, just wondered if PSE could just do it for me.

If you use File->Place to open your elements, the layer will take on the
name of the file.
Or, if you drag the photo or element up from the photo bin (beneath your
layout), it will use the file name as the layer name.
Here's what I do: I have my layout as my currently active image, choose
the move tool, then click and drag the element I want from the photo bin
up to my layout. It always takes on the file name.
-Trish

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Line,
> Can we currently or can you (Adobe), make it possible
that in
> the future, when you create a symbol from a
fill/line/imported
> image for the first time on a original-unchanged Layer
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> (ex. Layer 1, Layer 2, Layer 36) That the Layer name
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