Can't Find Compass Imports after Compass Install - sass

I'm updating a PHP project using PHPStorm. I first started using SCSS by turning on the PHPStorm watch for the file type. It works fine. I then wanted to incorporate Compass. I successfully installed it and ran "Compass create --bare" in my project directory. Now when I include #import "compass/typography/vertical_rhythm", it can't find it. It's not surprising as there is no compass subdirectory. How do I install the required components? Didn't see any Compass option that seemed appropriate. I used the bare option because thats what's the Compass site gave me for an existing project.
Once I get it installed, do I need the Compass watch given I already have a file watcher running for SCSS files? The description of it indicates it does the same thing.
Running OS X 10.8.4

Answering my own question again. I should have plugged away a little longer. I'll leave this in case someone has the same problem.
The #import "compass/typography/vertical_rhythm is resolved by the the Compass compiler. Just running a vanilla SASS compiler isn't going to do it. At this point I make this happen by running compass compile on a bash command line. I haven't been been able to get the PHPStorm watcher to work correctly. A new version of PHPStorm was announced yesterday (5 Sep 2013) with additional support for Compass.
Update
There's another question here asking how to get compass compile to work with PHPStorm. It didn't work as written for me. I made a comment there on the changes I made to get it to do so.

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