Capture Date issues in Lightroom !

Hello,
I have a 30k picture database (mixed scanned and digital camera images) in Photoshop Elements v3.
I really would like to shift to LR, I even tried several betas about it (it was awful how slow it was on XP :).
Now I downloaded the Lightroom v1 in order to see how can I migrate my PSE3 database into LR.
My issue is mainly about dates: If you tell to PSE that a given image was captured (taken) in a given point of the time, PSE stores the information in its internal database and allocates it to the image. The result is a good chronological order of the pictures coming from scanner or DSLR.
BUT: When imported to LR, the dates are getting confused: Meanwhile the left section (I think this is the Metadata browser) displays mostly correctly the PSE dates, in the LIBRARY section, the 'Date Time' on each picture is the file creation date ! On the right side the Metadata information also shows the file date instead of the capture date set by PSE.
Do you have any idea why this is like that ?
In this way, it's impossible to see on a given picture selection when it was really done.
(Btw, same issue with DSLR pictures for which the date had to be modified later on due to an error of time setting in the DSLR!)
thanks : Kadosa

I'd have to hunt, just like you. I read them ALL, don't always remember, exactly where something is, sorry.
Maybe a previous poster on thei will point the way?
Don
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