My (horrible) workaround for this which I use when I need to find a particular image by name is to create a .imagelist file with the image and then load it using the “Image Selection” button.
When you load image lists, if the image already exists it just gets highlighted. So then you have to scroll through and look for a highlighted image. This highlighting behavior does not happen when you add a single image, unfortunately. I guess that might be a bug too.
By the way, the import / export terminology should to be unified. Why do you export an “Images List” but you import an “Image Selection,” and you export a “Registration” but you import a “Component”? This is confusing and impedes learning the software.