Scanning to iphoto

I am having trouble scanning with my HP 2410 all in one. (I know, it is an ancient--in technology years--machine, but it works and I want to use it.) I am using OS 10.5.5 and have installed the recommended updates. I can scan photos, but it takes many steps to get my photos to iphoto and I am sure there is an easier way. I have called HP and after giving them my info and a detailed description of my problem, they said I had to pay for help or go online for help. Then I tried the chat option and after providing my info and a detailed description of my problem and waiting forever and a day for someone to begin the chat process, I was told they don't support Mac users. Then I tried the email option and am still waiting for support...Seriously.
I have always gotten great advice from this forum and am hoping I can get some answers here. Here are the steps I am taking in order to scan a photo to iphoto...
1)use HP Scan and choose preview scan (wait for the scanner to do his thing.)
2)change the scan area even though I have auto crop selected, never seems to choose the correct area
3)"accept" and wait for scanner to do his thing again--btw, I have jpeg to HP Gallery selected because I don't think I want to "save as" or "print" (but I could be wrong)
4)HP Photo and Imaging Gallery opens and I select save as then go to the second pull down menu and select auto import (I have tried to change the setting to do this automatically, but can't figure out how. I have to do this every time I scan a photo.) It automatically goes to Archive, but I don't think that is where I want it, but once again, I could be wrong!
5)open iphoto to make sure the photo is popping up there.
Again, this works, but with a pile of photos to scan, this is a maddening process and I am sure it could be much easier if my settings were changed. I have fiddled with it quite a bit with no luck.
Please help.

So after a couple of email exchanges with HP support, they informed me that my HP would print but I would not be able to scan with it. I guess they missed the part of my message that said I was scanning with it...

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