IntelliJ does not recognize "/spring.ftl"

My IntelliJ will only recognize "spring.ftl" and not "/spring.ftl" in Freemarker templates using Spring.  The latter is correct where as the former will not work at runtime as the templates I'm working on are not in the root Freemarker directory.  For example:

webApplicationContext.xml

  <bean id="freemarkerConfig" >
    <property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8"/>
    <property name="templateLoaderPaths">
      <array value-type="java.lang.String">
        <value>/WEB-INF/freemarker/</value>
        <value>...other directories...</value>
      </array>
    </property>
  </bean>

/WEB-INF/freemarker/someDirectory/someTemplate.ftl

  <#import "/spring.ftl" as spring>
  ... other freemarker code ...

/WEB-INF/freemarker/someDirectory/someOtherTemplate.ftl

  <#import "spring.ftl" as spring>
  ... other freemarker code ...

The first is correct and will work at runtime, however it is unrecognized in IntelliJ and code completion will not work.  The second is incorrect and will fail at runtime, however IntelliJ does recognize and code completion works.  Do I have IntelliJ misconfigured or is this a bug?  Currently we are stuck using the wrong import to get code completion working and then changing it to the right import before trying to run it.