Can't reconnect files after move to D/drive

I'm using PSE 3.2.  I wanted to create more space on my C: drive so I moved all my photos to my D: drive but have been unable to reconnect my photos on either drive.  I've reconfigured the program to look in the D drive using the preferences menu. I've even moved all the photos back to the C: drive and tried it back from scratch. When I try to reconnect the photos using the browse function, the program crashes.  I'm wondering if I install a more recent version of PSE or even a paid version like Adobe photoshop elements 9...will this enable me to correct the problem?  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

First question - to clarify
Do you have the FREE Photoshop Album or did you PAY to purchase Photoshop Elements ?
Next comments are relevant if you have a paid purchase Photoshop Elements version 3  __
It has been a long time since I moved files under PSE verison 3. I am not sure what is the best solution for you because of the limitations/inconveniences of 3 (v3 was the first version to have the Organizer). More discussion is probably beneficial after you review my comments and also those of DJ Paige.
Here are some specific recollections for PSE 3:
1 - The PSE Reconnect command can (will) crash if there is any error (inconsistency) in your configuration of hardware known to Windows. I suspect that it can even be factors like a disk that is shared across your network drive which is not accessible at the time.    I think it can crash even if you don't have any needed photos on that disk drive: Reconnect expects that it may find photo files on disks unknown to the PSE Catalog, so I think it searches everywhere.
2 - Stacks and Version Sets don't all move when you do the moves from 3.2 PSE (later versions they do).
-- For Stacks, you should be able to do an Expand All Stacks command before doing the moving with PSE in order to have the Stacks moved.
-- For Version Sets, I think that you will need to move each of the photos of the version set individually..
Other General comments:
-- If that D drive is an external hard drive, it is very important for PSE 5 (and earlier including v 3) that this external drive always be assigned the same drive letter by Windows.
-- If you plan to upgrade your version of PSE, you will need to have a very clean (error free) PSE Catalog

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