Import acting strangely.. selecting random and previously imported images

Whenever I try to do an import, looking for new images on my existing harddrive, I am seeing strange activity that I cannot understand.
First, Lightroom selects thousands of images (all?) to import, then it automatically begins reducing the number of selected images to a much smaller, but seemingly random subset of images that have already been imported.  If I go ahead and import, and then try the same process, I get another seemingly random set of previously imported images.
Any ideas what is happening?
Doug
(I am new to this forum, may not understand all the protocal for asking questions like this)

Lightroom 4.2, Mac OSX 10.7.5

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