Lightroom 5 isn't seeing my file structure. Please help!

I just recently upgraded lightroom at the same time that I switched harddrives. Basically, I installed LR 5 on the new harddrive. Then I opened my LR4 catalogue on LR5 and had it do the "update" to the catalogue. Everything seemed to be working properly. However, this is the first time I have imported a memory card and it is really having problems.
I imported and had the files put into Pictures>Client Sessions>Weddings (and then wrote in the subfolder name). It shows in my finder that that is where the photos are. However, in Lightroom it is like creating a whole new section. For some reason it isn't "linking" to my current file structure. See the 2014 Mclennan-Reeser file. It is under "wedding" on my finder.
See how it is is like its own separate thing on my Lightroom (even though if you scroll down you will SEE the wedding folder. I have even tried to drag and drop it into "wedding" on LR... but it says it already exists OF COURSE IT DOES!  I then tried to right click on 2014 McLennan and say "show parent folder", but it just creates a NEW "Wedding" folder in LR. Why is this happening??? Any fixes?
two images below.

OK, now that we know what the problem is the trick is to get Lightroom to forget about the "LindseyPortugal" path, and to merge everything in that path with the new 2014 folders' "lyndseyportugal" path. To do that we need to employ a bit of a roundabout route:
1. Backup your catalog, just in case something wrong.
2. Create a dummy (i.e. new but empty) folder at the root of your SSD drive (i.e. not in the users library), call it something like "Dummy Images".
3. In the Lightroom Folders Panel right/ctrl-click on "Pictures" and in the resulting context menu select "Update Folder Location". A file browser window will open, use this to navigate to and select the "Dummy Images" folder. Don't be alarmed when "Pictures" disappears from the panel to be replaced by "Dummy Images", and all the sub-folders will have the "?" mark to indicate they're missing. This step is needed to get Lightroom to forget all about the "LyndseyPortugal" path.
4. Next, right/ctrl-click on "Dummy Images" and again select "Update Folder Location".This time browse to and select the "Pictures" folder (so Lightroom should now register the path as being under "lyndseyportugal"), and if all goes to plan you should now see everything back as it should be, with that 2014 sub-folder showing with the other sub-folders under "lynsdeyportugal/Pictures". One thing to note, there MAY be a "Merge" warning message, i.e. along the lines of "This folder already exists in the catalog, do you want to merge", if so choose "Merge".
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