Switching from iphoto

I have divided all my iphotos by year. When I converty to Aperture, should I do the same or just merge all the years intor one Aperture library? Also, why does it take so long to load up Aperture, and scrolling up and down seems very sluggish in comparison to iphoto?

I converted a large library from iPhoto to Aperture 2 and now version 3.01.
Keep everything in one Aperture library and I do find that creating folders by year, then projects within each year folder is a very convenient method for me.
If you have that set up already in iPhoto, that same structure will transfer when you import your iPhoto lib to Aperture.
Sluggish performance is not normal. Mine is quite fast.

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