Importing images from all subfolders within a directory and only within that directory

Hi All
I volunteered to oragnise my grandmas photo collection after I started using lightrooom.
My experience of lightroom started off great but has gone down hill since then. This should be very easy to do. Contanstant propblems now being able to read LR4 catalogs and upgrade them to LR5 format
My most recent problem is I have copied the entire contents of my grandmas computer to a portable hard driv
Drive I:\ directory I:\grandma.
I now want to create a new catalog in lightroom so I can import all her photos (scattered all over the computer in various files, she had no structure) into one single folder, so everything is organised.
The problem is (I have tried lightroom 4 and 5 each with a different problem):
In lightroom 5 I open a new catalog, open the import dialog and point it to the directory I:\grandma, then I click the show all subfolders (it only recognises 150 image but there are at least a few thousand) I think it is only recognising the immediate folder even though I have the ALL photos option selected, and the copy all photos and import from subfolders options selected.) At the very least it is not recognising all the subfolders, in some cases there are about seven levels.
What is the maximum number of images you can import in one go? And how many nested subfolders can you have?
In lightroom 4 I open a new catalog and open the import dialog and point it to I:\grandma. However this time the import dialog box returns photos which I know are not in the directory I:\ grandmas. It is displaying a lot of my photos in the import dialog box (even though I have clearly selected the I:\grandma directory. when I use show in explorer I can see it is showing images from my C drive that it wants to import.
Why is it doing this when I have clearly selected I only want to import my grandmas photos into the catalog from the directory I:\grandma?
I have also followed Pete Green's directions here to 1. optimise the catalog ( I did it however not sure of the point when it is a new catalog with no images in it) and 2. remove xmp files of which there are none (see point 1.) http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1231573
Please help.

UPDATE--> Manually adding folders (drag from explorer and drop on music libray) appears to be functioning as a work around. I have been testing individual folders and so far so good.
While this may be a workaround i have HUNDREDS of folders! =(

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