I have read all of your posts, and tried to implement what was on the page. I was getting nothing after following those steps, until I renamed it to #collections. All of the same options were checked.
All of the information for these books is already in Calibre, so when reading the page you linked to:
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Now, when you edit the metadata for a book, look for the Custom Metadata area (where it is found depends on the view you are using). In the field My Shelves type in whatever shelves you want the books to be placed.
If you do as I did and also add series to the driver options, a shelf will be created automatically for each book series, and the books added to that shelf.
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implies that I need to set up the shelves first, and then it will make it for each series. Nothing about what happens if the series info is already present, besides adding to the custom "Shelves" metadata, which is what I posted I was doing.
I had it previously as #myshelves, and the collections kept disappearing off the device (when created on it) and not showing up (when created in Calibre). Also the Order series didn't work, as it was empty. After reading everything you wrote, it sounds like this is a plugin for people starting out adding to their collections, not taking an existing collection and adapting it for Kobo use.
So exactly how do I take books that already have series info, but no custom metadata, and make it so that the plugin will add it to a collection automatically, and order it correctly for the series? All of the things you said to check are, and the field reads #collections, series.