Where are my catalogs?

I recently upgraded from PSE 6 to PSE 9.  At the time of my upgrade, it automatically converted my PS
E 6 to the PSE9 format.  All was well until I created a new temporary catalog to use for a project I was working on.  When I finished and went to open my main catalog (the one that had been converted from PSE6), I couldn't find it.  I am looking under what is listed under the menu option File : Catalog.  No matter what I pick for "Catalogs accessable by All Users" "Current User", etc - I don't see my former (or any) catalogs.  Just to see what would happen, I then created a new catalog, and I now don't see that temporary catalog I had just been in either!
If I search my computer, I can find what look like the other catalogs as "pse9db" files, but I can't get PSE to open them.
It is important that I recover my old catalogs.  How can I do this?
Thanks.
- Dave

1.  When you previously created the PSE9 catalogs, were they created as catalogs "Accessible by All Users" or as catalogs "Accessible by the Current User"?  In Win7, the catalogs are stored by default in directories which are considered "System" directories and are hidden.  To view hidden directories (and files), in Windows Explorer click on "Organize...Folder and Search Options...the 'View' tab" and deselect "Hide protected operating system files".
"All User Accessible" catalogs are in directories under:
C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs
"Current User Accessible" catalogs are in directories under:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs
The name of the catalog is used as the name of the subdirectory of the ...\Catalogs directory.  E.g., your "My Catalog" catalog is in the ...\Catalogs\My Catalog directory.  Once you've found the directory containing your previously created PSE9 catalogs, you'll know whether to use Organizer's Catalog Manager to choose "All Users" or "Current User" as the catalog option.  PSE9 should automatically find the catalogs.
If not, you can always copy the <CatalogName> subdirectory to a custom location on your hard drive, such as C:\Storage and use the Catalog Manager to point to the "Custom Location", which in this example would be the C:\Storage directory, not the C:\Storage\<CatalogName> directory.
2.  The easiest way to share catalogs between users on the same computer is to use Organizer's Catalog Manager to create a catalog using the "Accessible   by All Users" option.  You can also use the "Custom Location" option to accomplish the same thing if you want the catalog to be created in a directory that is not hidden, such as the C:\Storage directory in my example.
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