Lightroom 2.5 Import always results in "lost files"

Using LR 2.5
Have an existing file folder tree with three levels of sub-folders and JPG image files in the lowest level folders.
Have tried a variety of "Import from Disk" sequences and invariably the images import but then become "lost". Even after re-installing LR, creating new catalog, and only importing one image it is "lost" and then when I use the find function it complains the filename is already in use. Left teh "Don't import dupes" unchecked.
Awful hard to not conclude that there is a software bug when LR traverses a filefolder tree.

I am having a recurring problem recently that I cannot figure out.
I have a bunch of photos that I have yet to import into Lightroom so I started importing them in place and moving some into better named directories.
Perhaps you could explain more here ... you import and then move the photos/folders? Are you using Windows or MacOS to do the move? Are you moving the photos/folders in Lightroom? Which?
By the way, I agree with Saskatchewan (however you spell his name) that the most efficient use of Lightroom is not to move files or folders around from one place to another on the same hard disk. You organize in Lightroom with Lightroom tools (keywords, captions and metadata, collections). In the past, before you had Lightroom, folders were both storage locations and organizational tools. Now that you have Lightroom, folders represent storage locations only; you organize your photos using Lightroom tools only. Lightroom tools give you more power and more flexibility than anything you could come up with using folders.
If you need to move your storage to somewhere else because of space or backup needs, then do so, using Lightroom's folder panel; but don't move folders to be better organized and to help you find your photos better because that's what keywords, metadata and collections are for. In particular, your "better named directories" most likely should be keywords.

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