There is flexibility within the confines of the limited choices available within FP, yes, but TOTAL flexibility? Absolutely not!
Even the process you suggest involves extra steps and searching through a list of folders to work out what range the original images fitted into.  Hardly intuitive or easy.
Have you actually used DLP? That is total flexibilty in how you want to name your files, folder structure, shoot date, download date, camera name, location, etc.etc.  All in one click!
Look at the screens below of a few of the options available.

Well, you can type in any folder name you like 
You call that intuitive and what about all those clicks for the tick boxes 

BTW, suggest you use jpeg's for attachments, they are then readable on the forum screen.

Terry

There are rows that you can make for each transfer condition that you may like, regardless of how unique any one of those might be.
As Terry said, (and this is the main point) once you set up a row to do a special transfer with a specially named folder, and have a date param. set, you can turn that off when not in use, and on when needed.
Make row after row of your oddest setups. Flashpipe will remember them and use them only when you switch them on. !

I will try to be clearer.
I have attached three snaps to the message.
Using them, I want to show you that you can make many rows with destination folders all set to accept the new uploads. I left the right hand columns blank since they would be filled in by the user, on a use by use basis.
You can see the first row is filled in as the shots were being uploaded at the time of the shoot to a new folder called Rodeo-2008.
You can name the right hand column as you see fit.
I can do 2009-rodeo for this year, or Rodeo-2009, or the whole date with Month Day and Year... I can type into the last box and have the auto date too.
I can have Flashpipe  auto name my sub folders for me.
I could go on and on, but the point is that you can set up rows, many rows, of preset destinations and file types, and leave these rows turned off until you need them.
You can set the right side column to auto date (see snap 3)  and it will always be current. You can add the event to the date.

I could go on and on.... but you can see that setting the rows to various jobs, and again more rows for various destinations, you have the versitility to make Flashpipe do anything you want, and it will keep those settings so you don't have to do it every time.

Fred

Simply go into Settings and turn on the date range feature.
There are so may options to set to please as many as possible.

Fred

It's likely my fault for not explaining better.
The subfolder naming when turned on Automatic, It says Create Subfolders by date.
Then if RANGE is turned on, it will show in the Subfolder name that the shots on the card were taken on dates from (10-15-2009 to 10-17-2009)
Sorry, I just can't explain it any better than that.
Maybe someone else can do better?

Fred

In the above example, you have pictures from 2009-10-18 so as soon as you insert the card, FlashPipe's subfolder will already say "2009-10-18".  That's the only day for which you have pictures on the card so your subfolder will automatically show that.  So set the "To Folder" to 2009/2009_10, click "Go" and you're done.

The next time you download, you might have pictures from October 24.  So you insert your card and click "Go" an you're done.  Your pictures will go into 2009/2009_10/2009-10-24.

The only differences using that method between FP and DL Pro are:

• Obviously you'd have to change your "To Folder" once a month
• If you have say three days of photos, DL Pro will create three new folders: 2009/2009_10/2009-10-24, 2009/2009_10/2009-10-25, and 2009/2009_10/2009-10-26.  FP will create one folder: 2009/2009_10/2009-10-24..2009-10-26.

That's based on what you like to do.  For me, splitting 2009 into months is just extra work all the way around.  I don't use DAM software because I don't need it.  I create ONE folder for the year and I let the download date(s) dictate the folder.  So in my 2009 folder I'll have a folder named 2009-10-24..2009-10-26 automatically: that tells me that I downloaded photos from that date range.  Sometimes I'll add a description to that manually like 2009-10-24..2009-10-26-Siesta-Key so I can look at that and tell that the folder contains photos from those three days and that the subject of the photos was Siesta Key Beach.  It's elegant, simple, and most importantly deliberate!  I haven't arbitrarily created three new folders just because there were three days worth of photos on the card.  It creates one folder that automatically shows the date range of the photos in that folder and after the download, I can make a conscious decision as to whether or not they NEED to be split further.  If I came back from a three day beach trip with the family, I'd likely leave all three days in one folder: no sense splitting them so I can only see one day at a time when I want to print all photos of Uncle Jesse playing with the kids on the beach for him to take home.  If one of the three days was actually a boating event that I want to separate, I can make that decision to split those to another folder (and I can do that easily based on file date) but that should be a conscious decision, not a decision made by a program automatically.  But that's just me.  

Mike