Cannot edit in Photoshop Elements

Hi,
I´m running Lightroom 1.3.1 and Elements 6.0 on a Vista machine, and I´m having problems to bring up photos in Elements for editing. I had to modify the registry to enable the Edit in Photoshop elements menu, and now Elements opens up when issue this command.
The problem is no photo shows up in Elements! Elements opens up with an empty window but nothing more happens!

I managed to solve the problem on my own. By mistake, I put a reference to the Elements "container application" (the EXE-file that ends with 6.0) in the registry. For some reason the editor fired up which made me believe everything was OK. I changed this reference in the registry to EXE-file corresponding to the elements editor (this filename _do_not_ end with 6.0) and then everything worked all right.
I think it would be wise to update the technical note on this with a warning!

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From: "Barbara B." <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:05:25 -0600
To: Warren Newman <[email protected]>
Subject: Iphoto Editing with Photoshop Elements 9
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