Was iPhoto designed to be useless, or did it just turn out that way?

I put my iPhone in the cradle. iPhoto starts. I dismiss the welcome screen. I have an album in iPhoto's MOBILEME GALLERY called "Dog" with pictures of my dog. There are 2 photos in the album. I have about 5 new ones on the iPhone. I select and drag them to the album. A plus sign appears indicating that copying is taking place. I wait a while. I click on the album. Only the original 2 are there.
I click on the iPhone in the sidebar. I click "Import All". I get a dialog informing me of duplicates, asking me what to do. I click "Don't Import" and check the box "apply to all". None of my new pictures get imported.
It seems to me I'd be better off manually dragging the pictures off the iPhone into folders of my choosing and filing them as I see fit.
Am I doing it all wrong or is it not working?

But when I drag and drop something and a plus sign, , pops up, that indicates to me that something is being copied to the location that I'm dragging the icon to.
The plus sign actually means that the item is being dragged, not that it is getting to its target.
When I click the "import" button to import pictures into an album where they don't exist and are told they are duplicates, there is a malfunction.
This may be an issue of terminology, but you cannot import to an existing album. You can import to the Library and if there are duplicates there you will get a warning. However, if you're getting dupes reported and there aren't any you may have a damaged library file. Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild.
I'm used to having access to the actual files in a folder and being able to rename, copy and move them at will without learning the ins and outs of another piece of software that manages them for me.
If you want to manage your photo files and not your photographs thenwhy are you using iPhoto? Surely not just to sync them to your iPhone. You don't to use iPhoto for this. You can sync them with your iPhone from any folder you want on the HD. Perhaps you need to learn the ins and outs of iTunes.
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