Significant problem when importing a new site

Question

Ok, let me first mention that I'm using DW MX, not a newer iteration. What can I say? I like this version, it works great for my needs, and I don't like the newer ones.
So, I have all the properly categorized files for my website on my hard drive, and I was going to manually import the site into DW. I've done this before and it worked fine. However, once everything was brought in as a new site and I opened an HTML file to edit some photos/text, I saw that alll my images are broken, all the backgrounds are missing, as well as my image bars, and in some places the text formatting is gone (like a centered heading in bold is now aligned left with </center> next to it (Why am I seeing HTML? I'm in design view!)
I noticed when I right-clicked on an image and selected "Source File", it's referencing the HTML folders, not the Image folders. I re-linked one image on one of my HTML pages for testing and saved the change, and I then checked the background images on some other HTML pages, and now they all reference that image folder of the page I saved instead of my Backgrounds folder.
I'm not sure why the images suddenly decided to link to HTML pages. At some point with moving, my transition to different computers, and different versions of DW, my site disappeared from my list of sites in this DW MX. I re-imported it from my C drive and got this. I'm going to have a LOT of work re-linking all my images, bars, backgrounds, and correcting text layout on all my pages if I can't get this fixed. At least the website currently online is unaffected. I'm wondering if I should just download the website that on the remote server somehow into DW. I know it's all properly linked online.
Anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

When you say "download the intact site first," do you mean from the server? I'm not sure where you're talking about. The intact site exists only on my hard drive, accessed through Windows Explorer. I imported this as a new site into DW. However, I had evidently not linked the images, backgrounds, bars, etc, on the HTML pages. Everything on the server is in one folder - no organization there at all, which is the way it used to be.
I'm puzzled, however - it's been months since I messed with this site, and I've forgotten a lot of what I did. I must have started on my HD, created and organized all the folders and files to my liking, and saved it. This would have invalidated all my links which I had in place when all the HTML pages were in one huge folder. This is probably why everything is so broken within DW, but why everything still works online - I haven't fooled with anything on the remote server (yet). Even though this isn't the biggest site in the world, considering how much time I have in my schedule, it's still going to take me about two weeks worth of work to fix this.