Newbie going crazy trying to load photos

Question

Hi
Can somebody please help with loading photos onto my new iphone?
On my PC (not Mac), under my picures I have, for example, a folder called family. under there are just photos, no folders. I also have a folder called holidays, and under there are folders for 2008, 2009 etc. How do I load the family stuff into 1 album on the iphone, and only the 2009 holiday pics into another allbum?
If I go for 'selected photos', and select family and holidays, then I get 2 albums, but with all holiday years. I cannot open up the folder tree for holidays. If I load the family folder first, then change 'sync photos from' and select 2009 from holidays, then it does load just 2009, but it deletes family! Also the photos are loaded into an album called 'photo album', not 2009 or holidays. If I uncheck the sync option, and say 'dont delete the photos from iphone', next time I check 'sync' it warns it will delete all photos first when it syncs. Is there a way to do what I want? I dont want all my holiday pics in 1 album as there are 2000+
The phone is great, but itunes is driving me crazy!
Any help greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Just to expand more and maybe spell it out (not saying the other poster didn't help )
But that iPhone sync options has limits. You can only point it to one folder. And for the most part you really don't want to point it to a place you want to fully keep your photos for good (eg, don't point where you keep all your photos).
Go make a folder someplace, for example:
C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\My Documents\My Pictures\iPhonePics
Now in that folder make other folders like:
C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\My Documents\My Pictures\iPhonePics\family
C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\My Documents\My Pictures\iPhonePics\kids
C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\My Documents\My Pictures\iPhonePics\2008
etc
Point iTunes to the root folder you made:
C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\My Documents\My Pictures\iPhonePics
Now go put copies of pictures you have into the folders you made. I say copies because lets say later you want them off your phone, but you want to keep them on your computer. Well if you have the original where you normally keep photos, then you need only go to this iPhonePics folder, find the photo and delete it, thus on next sync it is gone.
And having this setup when you want another folder or set of pics, you just go to that iPhonePics folder, and put copies of the new pics you want in it.