Albums and tags in folder view PSE9

I have just converted from v6 to v9. In v9. I have a pictures folder with dated subfolders. In v9, using albums to search or tags, I cannot search the whole pictures folder ie all the subfolders. It will only search within the folder I am viewing. The means I have effectively lost the ability to search. It worked in v6 ok. I can search using albums/tags only when I am in thumbnail view. I have checked all the varioous options and views and cannot work out if something is wrong or a different functionality. In v6 when in folder view I click on "My pictures" all the photes can be viewed and I can scroll through all the sub folders using the slider down the rightr side. In v9 when I do this nothing is displayed and I have to click on a specific folder to view photos but only those in the subfolder. Any ideas how to solve this issue?
Neil

I agree. This upgrade has lost important features and is extremely slow. If I had only known, I defintely would not have upgraded.
Hopefully, the folks from Adobe are following this and will issue a patch to make the organizer usable. I'm about to just switch to Picasa for the organizer features.
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