Automatically finding folders that have been moved?

(LR 1.3.1 on WinXP)
I used to have My Pictures\yyyy-mm-dd-topic as my directory structure, and to aid in backups, added a new intermediate level diretory for the year, and moved all the folders for a given year into that year's folder. Using Explorer.
The image folders are now one level lower although the folder names have not changed: My Pictures\yyyy\yyyy-mm-dd-topic. LR of course cannot find them which I expected.
Is there a way to get LR to find the folders again, given a hint somehow?
Adding a simple image at one of the new roots (My Pictures\2006\test.jpg) and importing that, did not result in the "2006-mm-dd-topic" subfolders being re-found.
Thanks,
Andy

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