Lightroom import folder naming - Folder Description Problem revisited

Cam2pc has a very flexible naming system for importing raw and jpg images from card reader to the workstation hard drive. We have found Lightroom lacking in this area and so have continued to use cam2pc, however cam2pc is no longer supported, we will be upgrading Lightroom to v5 on a number of workstations and I would like to revisit this issue: See this thread that I started 5 years ago. http://forums.adobe.com/thread/353920
Cam2pc uses today's date to fill everything automatically except that we key in a folder description, %P ( in the example below it would be "Knudson, Sara Graduation" and cam2pc will create the structure shown below automatically.)
The cam2pc template we created is this:
J:\Pictures\Pictures %Y\%Y-%m %a\[%Y-%m-%d] %P
Because everything is done automatically there is no room for error. With over a million pictures we don't like errors. With over a million pictures managed like this, we want to find something that will do this just the same way cam2pc can. Has Lightroom grown up enough to be able to do this? (Note: image files are never renamed. They are as they came out of the camera)
Here is the directory structure that the above template creates. The "to order" folder is created later in the process by Lightroom or by ProSelect as part of our workflow.
Drive J
Pictures
    Pictures 2013
     2013-01 Jan
     2013-02 Feb
     2013-03 Mar
     2013-04 Apr
     2013-05 May
     2013-06 Jun
       [2013-06-02] Smith, Joan <- each of these are client folders and all everything is under this folder
       [2013-06-02] Peters, Amanda
       [2013-06-02] Jones, Sophia Family
       [2013-06-22] Knudson, Sara Graduation
          IMG_2450.CR2
          IMG_2451.CR2
          IMG_2452.CR2
          IMG_2453.CR2
          IMG_2453.PSD
          IMG_2453a.PSD
          IMG_2453b.PSD
          Knudson, Sara Slideshow.mp4
          Knudson, Sara Order.pdf
            To Order                                    <- folder to hold ordered images for Sara Knudson
               IMG_2453.jpg
You may wonder how we manage over a million pictures this way, but that is the topic for another discussion some other time. I just want to replicate this folder creation as the images are downloaded from the card reader. Breezesys Downloader Pro meets most of my requirements, but I hope LR itself is sufficient.
Message was edited by: phototales

Hi Rob,
I just have to try the Ottomanic Importer.
Will let you know how it goes..
Is it ready for LR5?

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