Convert Folders to Collections?

When I started using Lightroom back in the 1.0 beta days, I started organizing my photos by folder - not for any particular reason, it was just the way I picked. Fast forward a few years, and I have nearly 47,000 photos divided into folders across three hard drives. I've recently come to realize that I should really just keep my photos on the disk organized by date or something similar, and use collections in Lightroom like I had been using folders. I realized this the first time I had a photo that belonged in two separate folders. Here's my question:
Is there any automated way to duplicate my folder structure using collections instead? Then I could reorganize my files by date. I'll learn the plugin dev stuff and write a plugin to do it if I have to

In that case you can either restore older and older catalogs until you've corrected the 'collection' problem but lost all of your work since then (!!!), or just stick it out with your current catalog and try to fix the problems as you find them, but at least not losing your latest work ... (neither are particularly nice options!).
Or you could merge the older catalog (with the correct collections) with the newer work, and lose nothing!
But I agree that collections exist only in catalogs, and thus are of limited benefit if you plan to use your photos outside of LR.
Add to this the chance that (as raised in other threads) LR hasn't even bothered to write out all of your changes to XML files on your disk
This is the user's fault, not Lightroom's fault.
and you see how much trust we *have* to put in the catalog ...
I have a huge amount of faith in the LR catalog. The part about Lightroom not bothering to write out the changes to the files is in the same sentence, but the two issues are not related.
I see comments in the forums to not harp on about performance because LR is more about DAM than about manipulating images, but that's a crock - there seem to be more issues with keywords/collections/smart collections/folder manipulation than with its performance!!!
While LR is not perfect, it does have bugs, I don't think you have provided evidence of a single issue with keywords/collections etc. (other than in the vague and unspecified "other threads"). I have had zero problems with Lightroom properly storing and remembering my metadata, and I guess I haven't seen those "other threads".

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