Help w. Photoshop Elements 5.0

I recently experienced a series of problems with Photoshop Elements 5.0.  The problems started out as a minor annoyance and graduated to pretty serious.
Here is what has happened. Over the last several days, I have been working to create 4 separate photo collections in a single catalog; the total number of photos spread across the collections is approximately 250. 
The first issue to surface was that the slideshow function stopped on two separate occassions and completely shut down the Photoshop Elements program. This was followed by the loss of the catalog containing the collections I was working on. Fortunately, I had backed up the catalog on a portable hard drive and was able to restore it in its original location on my desktop and avoided loosing about 10 hours of work. The next day, when I tried to back up the catalog or print photos, connections to a limited number of photos in two of the collections were lost and had to be reestablished.  Eventually, the connections to all the photos in all four collections were lost and needed to be reestablished to either print the collection or backup the catalog.
I suspect that the sofware has become unstable.  I was thinking of removing the program from my desktop and reinstalling it.  Or would it just be simpler to just upgrade to Photoshop Elements 8.0?
Any adice would be greatly appreciated.

Reinstalling may help, but it's not that likely.  You could try Adobe's generic troubleshooting:
XP: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/333/333200.html
Vista: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/401/kb401340.html
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