Photo downloader puts everything in One Directory

A problem I have been unable to solve - help!
My daughter has a Nikon P50. I load her photos onto my HomeServer whenever required just like I do with my Nikon D40, however there is one difference I cannot resolve.
When I use Photo downloader with my D40 (and also my previous camera) it very usefully creates a folder for each date and puts the photos taken on that date in there. This is a setting in the downloader option and it has always worked perfectly....... until I used it with the P50. Everyhing is set up identically except downloader stores all the photos, no matter when they were taken, in a single directory with todays date - how annoying!
I have contacted Nikon as I thought there must be a fault with the camera but they have thoroughly checked it out. Every picture is storing the correct information.
What could possibly cause this too happen.
A toughy people - can you help me!
Thanks
Mark

Hi
Thanks for replying......yes this is weird!
The metadata contains 3 dates:
Date Time - this appears to be the 'upload' time
Date Time Original - this is the date the photo was taken and is correct
Date Time Digitizes - this is the again the date teh photo was taken and is correct
This is the same as my Nikon D40 which uploads perfectly. Very weird!
Any thoughts about why would be appreciated!
Thanks again
Mark

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Subject: Photo Downloader doesn't retain previous
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Re: Photo Downloader doesn't retain previous settings (again)
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