Glad to hear that you've found something that sort of works.
I've come to the conclusion that P8 is a piece of crap that never should have been released.  It won't even finish a scan of it's own miniscule base folder in HOURS!
All of P7, DAZ/Studio, Carrara and Bryce handle their library structures better than P8 does.  heck they all handle the P8 structure better than P8 does.
What total twit decided that he needed to know how many items were in every folder BEFORE he opened any of them?
Sorry I'm still at the POed stage.
Will rebooting help at all?  So far it's just better, easier and safer to use P7.  No point in an app that can't read it's own data structures.