Help with Organizer

I'm on a Mac.  I made a "Master Image File" on my hard drive.  I put folders of raw images into the "Master" folder.
I have chosen to view by folders.  But - I see less than the total number of images in the folders.
For example from one image folder: I get a message at the bottom that 11 are displayed and that 38 are not shown. Where are they and how do I see them????
I tried to delete the folder and rebuild it from another hard drive -- now organizer keeps showing me the folder that I deleted.
Why can I not just see the folders and the images that are in them?  If I open the folder on my hard drive - all the images are there.  Why cannot Organizer find and display them?
Oh, how I miss Bridge.  I hate organizer!  it is a bunch of "cute tricks" for finding faces - and a link to sites to order prints.  It is not a real help to serious photographers and it just gets in the way.
Please, please, please bring back Bridge to the Mac for PSE 9.

>Organizer wasn't designed to perform this task.
And that is my point.  Bridge does that. I want it back - or to find a substitute that I can recommend.  It worked great for PSE 8.0.  It also works great for PS CS5.  In my studio I have 30 TB of external storage - on 15 eSATA hard drives.  I have tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of images organized by folders with customer/event plus date as the title. The files go back to 1998.  Bridge can display the contents of any drive or any folder on any drive. Spotlight (built into the Mac OS) can pull up any image number or a name on a folder or image - I don't need another program to do that. Each folder has sub folders with the RAW, TIFF and JPG versions of the images.
In my classroom I use PSE to teach digital photography.  I want to concentrate on PSE - but my students and I spend way too much time trying to find images hidden away in Organizer. They buy books on PSE - and half of the book is devoted to Organizer.
I advise my students to build a simple system of folders and download images into those folders - independent of a "photo" program.  Then, they can back up the whole master folder to a second drive (time machine does it automatically on a Mac).  My advice is to NOT give the download task to Organizer, or to iPhoto, or to any Program that came with the camera or the computer.  5 years from now all of them will have new computers and will be using a new photo program - I know for certain that, then, they will all be able to open images stored in simple folders.  Ever try to help someone open images with PSE that were stored away by an old iPhoto program on an old Mac?  Where are my images?
I am about to give up.  I'll use PSE 9.0 for teaching - but I'll use the "open" function from PSE to go to the images.  If I want to demonstrate how to apply Adobe Camera Raw to a JPG image, I have to do that anyway.  I have not found a way to open a JPG image directly with ACR from organizer ----
Do I dare say it again ????  I hate  Organizer.  Please sell me a version of Bridge for PSE 9.0.
Why is that so hard ????????

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