Unfortunately it doesn't, and I was hoping to have one program do all the work. Found out that's not quite how it works. I am now more aware of what can and can't be done, and I realize that I'll have to change my expectations and work around the program instead of trying to force it to accommodate everything I throw at it.
I still very much doubt that I'll ever get used to it completely, let alone love it. I still have issues with the duplication, and saving to separate folders, but I realize they are my issues and not everyone feels the same. I still reserve the right to complain and ask questions about things I don't understand, but I hope the complaints and questions will not be taken as malicious, as they were never meant to be that.
And finally, as I promised, I'd like to apologize to all who were annoyed at my flailing about and whining, and thank all those who had the patience to listen, try to work out my convoluted explanations, and help me achieve what I was after. Thank you all.
For the curious, here's what I found might work well with the setup I have, in case someone else finds it useful:
- for Save to disk
{author_sort} - {series} - {series_index} - {title}
- for Adding books (when reading metadata from file name)
(?P<author>[^_-]+) -?\s*(?P<series>[^_0-9-]*)(?P<series_index>[0-9]*)\s*-\s*(?P<title>[^_].+) ?