@jonas Thank you so much!!! 
Ha!!! So i tried the PPA thing you mentioned and it didn't work, not sure why.
However, I went back into the Software Manager and found that Strawberry shows up twice, once as 1.0.23 and once as 1.2.3. So I somehow obviously downloaded the wrong version.
I uninstalled 1.0.23 , installed 1.2.3 and did a system reboot.
Now it sees everything in the collection.
My only issue now is that for some reason, one of the albums is duplicated in the Collection.
When I search by File, the files are only there once, so I don't understand why it's duplicated in the collect. As far as I can tell it's only the one album.
I did both a collection rescan and an update to changed collection folders.
Here's a pic just for reference:
Than you again for all the help.