Import wants to import duplicates--why???

I recently consolidated photos on my server from several places and reconnected all the photos in the PSE6 organizer. As a control to make sure that all of the consolidated photos were in the catalog as expected, I imported from that folder and its subfolders expecting maybe a few that had escaped but nothing else.
Instead, it identified over 7,000 of something like 15,000 files for import.
I spot checked those 7,000 and all the ones I checked are ALREADY cataloged by the organizer. Of course, tags and album assignments and updated dates/times (to unknown) all were missing from the new imports. So, to avoid 7,000+ duplicates in the catalog, I undid the import.
Why are these getting duplicated? What can I do to eliminate the duplicates but get PSE Organizer to know that it has all of these files in the first place???

Dick,
Youve stumbled on a new bug (new to me, anyway) in PSE 6 and 7. After reconnecting a file on a network drive, it fails to ignore case in the filename when you try to reimport that file. Heres how to reproduce the bug on Vista (havent tested on XP):
1. Make a new catalog.
2. Do File > Get Photos And Videos > From Files And Folders.
3. Drill down to a file on a network folder and then click Get Photos to import it. Notice that it will start with all upper case, e.g. \\MYSERVER\.
4. In Windows Explorer, rename the file to a new name.
5. Do File > Reconnect > Missing File to reconnect the file.
6. Drag the file from Windows Explorer into the Organizer window to import it. (This is the way I usually import photos.) It will fail to identify the file as a duplicate and import it again with a lowercase server name, e.g. \\myserver.
7. Examining the database that represents the catalog, the volume table has two entries, one for \\MYSERVER and one for \\myserver.
The only way I know of cleaning up this mess in your catalog is to open the database file with a database tool (e.g. sqlite3) and edit the tables. But youd need to be reasonably savvy about relational databases.
I cant predict the long term consequences of not fixing the problem. It may be simply that PSE fails to identify duplicates on import. Or there may be other consequences were not thinking of yet.
You could try contacting Adobe Customer Support. But theyre likely to take a very long time (weeks) to tell you that they cant do anything. Last year someone had a catalog mangled due to a bug, and he could no longer access tens of thousands of photos archived on CD. Adobe took many weeks to acknowledge it was a problem, had him send a copy of the catalog, but then failed to fix it.

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