Trouble creating album  from My Pictures Folder

I'm trying to create an album from the My Pictures folder under the My Documents folder.  Within MyPictures I have several years worth of pictures organized into different folders.  I would like to basically import the folder structure into an Album.  I can import all of the pictures but they're not organized in any useful way. I don't want to have to reoganize 5 years worth of pictures.  I've been using Picassa and thought Photoshop Elements would be nice to have.  Picassa easily organizes the pictures according to the folder structure I already have.  Is there any practical way to import my folder structure into the album?  If not I think I wasted my money on Photoshop.  Thanks, I'll keep trying but for now I've gone back to Picassa to edit my pictures.
Mark

If you have PSE7 or later (not sure about PSE6), you can set the album name when you import photos from a folder. Its in the photo downloader, under advanced options.
An even simpler way to "recreate" your folder structure is to use Folder Location View (Alt-Ctrl-3), although there are some bugs that affect the operations of Folder Location View on occasion.
But ... the point of the Organizer is not to duplicate your folder structure as albums, or to organize by folders. If that's all you're going to do in the Organizer, I wouldn't bother, as it seems like a waste of time to me -- import, set the album name, and when you're all done, you have the same structure and have no benefits that you didn't have before in the folder structure. The Organizer is not a file browser, as Picasa is.
However, if you plan to create these albums, plus use the more powerful tools in the Organizer: (tags, captions, notes) you will have a much more powerful organization of your photos. These tools allow you to organize your photos in non-hierarchical ways (folder organization must be hierarchical). If you want all of your pictures of Churches, regardless of which folder they are in, you click on the Church tag, and you've got them all. You really can't do that in Windows, or with your folders duplicated into albums. If you are going to use these tools (along with your albums), or use the Organizer to make creations, then great, its probably worth your time.

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