How is it that fructose has a different metabolic pathway than glucose but yet glucose is converted to fructose?
The metabolic pathway you are talking about is how fructose is converted into energy and how its concentration in the blood is regulated. It is indeed true that blood fructose level does not affect blood insulin level, and this is why it is more "fat-inducing", as it cannot be effectively regulated like glucose.

It is also true that in glycolysis, glucose is converted to fructose-6-phosphate. However, this should not be confused with fructose itself. The fructose phosphate that fructolysis produced is fructose-1-phosphate, not fructose-6-phosphate.