Photos won't display in Parent folders or All Photographs

After upgrading to LR4 from LR3 when I go to the library and click on "All photographs" none of my 86000 photos show up.
The same thing happens in folders module....for example:
1. My photos are in folders titled 20120306
                                                20120201
2. Those folders are siored in a single "parent" folder called 2012
3. All the "parent" year folders are in a folder called MAIN
When I click on main it does not display any photos but it tells me how many photos are in the folder
When I click on 2012 it does not display any photos but it tells me how many photos are in the folder
When I click on 20120306 it then dislays the photos.
I am not sure why clicking on 2012 it would not show me ALL of the photos taken in 2012, that is what LR3 did......
PLEASE help as I am very puzzled by this!
Kevin

I'm running 3.3ghz i7 2700k, 16gb of ram. 8900 images on internal HDD, ~37k images on external drive.  By attempting to export first, I'm hoping to bypass the preview issue as it should use the previews that are there already, there is no option to render previews on import from catalog that I am aware of.  My export of the 8900 images just went to 85% and crashed lightroom.  I have shut down machine, rebooted, optimized the catalog and attempting export again.
Edit: So, I had to reduce my export to ~5100 images to get it to complete.  When it finished, it presented an error window indicating it could not find/did not have previews for all the images.  Seems kind of odd to me as I can see them all.  I'm exporting another image file of ~3k images next.  Then I will try and import them.
It's gonna be real ugly if I have to regenerate 45k previews again.
Edit again: Ok, this is not going to work.  The Export Catalog actually copies everything from the current drive to the backup location, the catalog and the images etc.  Upon import, the files are not imported from their locations, but rather the images just backed up in the export are what is imported.
I'm going to move all my images to one primary drive.  Try regenerating all previews and see if I can import from the LR3 catalog again and get it to complete.  What a nightmare this is.

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