Well Rich, I must apologize!...
I was highly doubteous about the "so-called" first serie you were talking about. Then I found this website
http://www.sos-planete-eau.org/fleurdel ... orique.php which gaves more information about these series, and THERE IS A FIRST SERIE about Fleur de Lampaul!!! And this serie is called "Les Peuples de l'Eau" and sound effectively much more interesting than the other series, with the children visting remote indian and african tribes...
I'm editing my first post about the series, and now we got to get a hand on the first serie!!!!
(I can't wait to see the Episode 5 from the Les Enfants de l'an 2000, seems pretty interesting...)