Album 1.0 to Elements 4.0

I currently have about 3,000 pictures saved, sorted and fixed under Adobe Photoshop Album 1.0 (I know, it's old) . I want to install elements 4.0. I was thinking of doing a back-up of Album 1.0 and then a restore of THAT CD on Elements 4.0. Problem is my burner stops dead at 4%.. and I can't seem to fix it. So I have heard that there's a simple file that has all the tag data on it that's relatively small. Can I simply use my thumb-drive to hold that file while I install the Elements ? I don't know where that tag file is, and then where to put it once I'm ready to start using Elements. My goal is to completely delete Album 1.0 from my system and then use Elements full time.
Any tips you guys can give me to make this a smoother transition?

Stewart,
First I am going to ask for assistance from at least one other forum member
Colin Walls
since this is Album 1, I wanted to ask if you can identify anything significantly different from Album 1 that might make a difference in this migration. Did Album 1 have a Reconnect or a Catalog Recover? Did Album 1 have Offline files? Any suggestions on the stopping at 4% on the backup?
Stewart,
I started using PS Album at 2.0 and I recently installed PSE 4 with someone who was running PS Album 2 before installing PSE 4. PSE4 found the existing PS Album 2 Catalog and coverted it to PSE 4 format (there was a dialog box asking for confirmation before doing the conversion). I think that the same process will happen for upgrading from PS Album 1.
Yes there is a Catalog file that contains the tags. I think the catalog location is the same in PS Album 1 and 2. The default name is My Catalog.psa and the folder location is
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop Album\Catalogs
You must enable viewing of Hidden Folders in order to display this folder uisng Windows Explorer. I suggest that you look for the catalog file and then post the size and date modified shown by Windows Explorer. There are several false hits that you can get under Program Files that are not really the catalog with your data, so verifying that you have the correct file is important.
So yes, you could make a copy of your PS Album 1 catalog file to your thumb drive. Also since you are upgrading to PSE 4, you must be running Windows XP and you could use the XP CD burning support to also write an additional copy of the catalog to a CD. However do NOT delete this catalog file from its current folder location.
Questions
From your description it seems that you are installing PSE 4 on the same machine where you currently run PS Album 1 - correct?
Verify whether you are using the default name for the catalog ?
How do you backup your photo files ? (asking since you say that the PS Album backup will not work)
I wonder why you specifically want to completely delete Album 1.0 from your system?
Barb O

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