Lightroom duplicating drive on import, driving me crazy.

Recently I started noticing a strange behavior in LR on import. I import photos from my SD card, converting to DNG in a folder structure based on days, months, years.
When the import is done... I see (in the folders secton on the left panel), two drives where there once was one. They are the same drive, but the top one has almost my entire collection of photos in it (except for my recent import), and the bottom drive has just the recent imported folder, nothing else. So there are two Drive images, one with all my previous photos and folders in it, and one with just the new folder I've imported. (a DataTale 12GB raid 0)
If I drag the errant folder from below to where it should be, in the upper drive image, LR gives an error saying that folder already exists. When I look in the finder... everything appears correctly imported.
Anyone else having this strange behavior?
I'm working with:
late 2013 iMac
system 10.9.2
LightRoom 5.3
Canon 6D
DataTale 12TB thunderbolt RAID 0
LightRoom catalog size approx. 121,000 photos

Thanks for that suggestion, I never noticed that command before, but it just shows the parent folder on the duplicate drive. It appears to have the same structure as the finder, but will only show the last imports.
Here are a couple screen shots from my test import. As you see, I'm collecting a few new folders in the phantom bottom drive.

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