Any hope? Moving tags from PSE 4 to new catalog.

So I've been using PSE 4 for several years, and have thousands of pictures in my catalog (most RAW images). They are ALL tagged. I've been tagging these files all this time without knowing that PSE 4 can't really write tags to RAW files.
Recently, I decided to upgrade to PSE 7, and also move everything onto a new computer. Much to my dismay, I've found out that I can't just copy all my images to the new computer, and keep all the tags.
Is there anything at all that I can do to keep my tags? Those tags were the result of hours and hours of work (multiple tags per image), and I'm totally depressed at the thought of having to go through them all again.
Any help / tips on how I can accompish this would be very appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
Thanks for the quick answer. It certainly did give me some hope, but I seem to be having some issues with the process.
I THINK I followed them fairly well, but this is what's happening:
I "backup" my catalog onto a network drive (accessible by both old and new computer). This takes a while.
Then, on the new computer, I "restore" the catalog, and specify a new location (local to the new computer), asking to retain the same directory structure (maybe this is bad?). It, again, took a while as it copied everything over. I verified that all the images were copied to the new computer where I wanted them. The part that didn't work was that my catalog was filled with all "empty" images marked as "offline". Clicking on them, it showed their path still pointed to the original location on my old computer. I tried to "reconnect all" images, but that didn't work (it just told me there were no images requiring to reconnect).
Probably something simple that I'm missing, but I can't seem to figure it out.
Again, I appreciate any help with getting this working for me.
Thanks!

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