BUT there is now 0 balance in my ZCL wallet and the amount I imported into BTCP shows as "sent" in ZCL. In other words, it looks like the ZCL sent to the BTCP wallet rather than duplicated 1:1 between the two. Is that even possible?
Any help would be much appreciated as I'm really worried I've lost the ZCL! x
The original/official ZCL electrum servers have gone offline. There is a community-driven effort to keep things moving for ZCL - the ZClassic Community Edition team (see posts by 'nimbosa' elsewhere) has worked pretty hard to keep the lights on.
https://twitter.com/ZclassicDev/status/979538343204564992 shows that you can add server "electrum.zclassic.community" and port "50002" in your ZCL Electrum settings and everything will start working again.
I would think you'd see your original ZCL balance at that point.