New to Aperture 3 - Q on importing and Sharing

First up;
I've tried importing the iPhoto library into Aperture which it seems to do ok however, it seems to import as 'projects & events' as opposed to 'albums' which I've created iPhoto, this is mainly an issue for me as I have over 16'000 pictures which I've spent a lot of time organizing in iPhoto using the Albums.
Is there any way round this or should I have been organizing my pictures as EVENTS rather than ALBUMS?
Secondly, will Aperture 3 & iPhoto share the same albums, library, pics and their locations? Basically can if I import photo's/album using Aperture will also appear in iPhoto? Ideally I'd like to be able to use both as some pics may not need heavy editing?
I know this seems basic but I do like to have my pics organised and want to know where they are
Thanks in advance
J

It makes no sense to use iPhoto and Aperture together. That's akin to writing your novel in Word and TextEdit - a paragraph here and there...
Aperture does everything that iPhoto does - and then some.
They are entirely different applications that work in very different ways.
The only communication between the two is as follows:
Aperture is able to parse the iPhoto Library to allow it to import the contents while stacking the Originals and Modified versions, preserving metadata and so forth.
Aperture can share its Previews with the iLife apps, including iPhoto.
That's it.
So, specifically, what interaction there is between the two is designed to facilitate migration from iPhoto to the more powerful app. After that, iPhoto has exactly the same relationship to the Aperture Library as, say, Pages or iMovie.
iPhoto has no knowledge of, and knows nothing of how the Aperture Library works. It cannot read the Aperture library.
No, Photos imported to Aperture will not show up in the iPhoto Library etc.
Pick one app and stick to it.
Regards
TD

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