Lightroom Image Import Troubles

Last night, I was importing some images into Lightroom. I mistakenly let Lightroom store them in a sub-folder of a sub-folder in the folder where I wanted them. Usable but not very good.
Attempt 1 - went to the CC Learning centre and watched video on moving files/images. Identifying parent folder didn't work - still couldn't move them.
Attempt 2 - video said files could be re-linked if link was broken. No luck here. This is where I might have made my biggest mistake by thinking that I could delete the images and re-import them.
Attempt 3 - when I clicked the import button, the dialogue started, but showed no images to import. Tried this several times and got same result.
Note: after cancelling the import, confirmed that I can still all images that have previously been imported. Whew! Yes I can.
Attempt 4 - found an SD card with images not previously in Lightroom. Same result-import dialogue starts, but no images showing. Houston, we have a problem!
The question is not if I am doing something wrong - it is what am I doing wrong?  Any help would be appreciated!

The same problem here.
I'm GMT+3, and have local time in my camera.
When I'm impoting images captured after 9PM they are going to folder of the next day, while metadata browser shows them correctly.
IMO this is a bug of LR ingester.
PS WinXPsp2 (Is this Windows only issue?)

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