Import albums from Photoshop Album?

I have an older XP desktop with the long-discontinued Photoshop Album on it (and a few thousand photos organized into Albums with many captions etc.)
I now have a new Windows 7 laptop with Photoshop Elements 8.
Is it possible to somehow import the photos from the old machine in such a way that the album structure and captions are preserved? (Rather than me having to recreate/reorganize everything).
(Background - despite my previous use of Photoshop Album I would not consider myself anything more than a novice with the product and Adobe products in general).
Many thanks in advance for any guidance that can be provided - it is much appreciated.
Regards
Tony

A bit far fetched, but you could try this.  Copy the Album catalog file (*.psa) to the new machine.  Also copy the pictures, preferably maintaining the folder/file hierarchy, i.e. if all is in My Pictures, put everything in Pictures in Win7.
Next you can do a catalog conversion with PSE8, by pointing to the *.psa file.  If the conversion works, open the "new" catalog and probably everything will be disconnected.  Then let the Organizer reconnect.  Point it to the Pictures folder to search.
I have not tried this, but it may work and you can't really do any harm since you are working with copies only.
Juergen
PS:  Here is some more about catalog maintenance: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/515/cpsid_51536.html

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