Moving pictures from Windows into iPhoto

I have a large number of photos on a Windows PC which I want to move into iPhoto on my Mac. The photos are organised into folders, but not consstently date stamped.
Is there any way I can import the photos in such a way as they will atomatically be organised into Events in iPhot in the same way there are in folders on the PC - or will I just ave to import them one folder at a time?
Thanks

One folder at a time - drag each folder to iPhoto and it will create an event matching it
Note however iPhoto is not about files and you will not have a structured file set for future imports although you can export into one
And you never access your files directly in iPhoto - you use iPhoto or the media browser in the lower left hand corner or each open/upload/attach window
And unless you plan to pruchase Apeture is it strongly recommended that you do not change the default preference to copy imported items to the iPhoto library
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