Catalog hell since upgrading to LR3 from LR2. Please help.

Ever since I upgraded from LR2 to LR3 I've been in a hellish runaround with my catalog. Whenever I start up LR3 a dialog box pops up asking me to "Please upgrade the catalog file "Lightroom_Catalog (original)" for use with Lightroom 3." It then makes a new catalog file. The problem is that I'm asked this question every time I open LR3 and I haven't had time, until now, to research the problem and I now have 3 different catalogs. AND when I allow it to upgrade the file I'm now getting a pop up saying "LR couldn't update the format of its catalog file because the file appears to be damaged." As far as I'm concerned LR3 is what damaged it in the first place. What can I do? I have jobs coming up and I just need LR to work and I need access to my catalog of photos. PLEASE help!
Forever in your debt if you can help.
Anita

How do you start Lightroom? Do you start via a Lightroom Icon or by double clicking on a catalog file within Windows Explorer or some other shortcut?
Keep in mind that when Lightroom 3 upgrades your catalog, the catalog is saved under a different name, usually the original name with a "-2" appended at the end of the name. Your original Lightroom 2 catalog remains untouched, so if you keep opening that version it will ask you if you want to upgrade it again or if you want to open the Lightroom 3 version.
Hope this shelds some light on your issue, otherwise please let us know so we can continue troubleshooting.

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Error Summary
While processing the current request, an exception occured which could not be handled by the application or the framework.
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System Environment
Client
Web Dynpro Client Type HTML Client
User agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; {12F65990-D65C-C5FA-1449-43FE4509287F}; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
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sap.com/tcSLCMS~WebUI
SapDictionaryGenerationCore (unknown)
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SapIdeWebDynproCheckLayer (unknown)
SapMetamodelCommon (unknown)
SapMetamodelCore (unknown)
SapMetamodelDictionary (unknown)
SapMetamodelWebDynpro (unknown)
SapWebDynproGenerationCTemplates (unknown)
SapWebDynproGenerationCore (unknown)
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sap.com/tcwddispwda
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     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Client.handle(Client.java:95)
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     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.ActionObject.run(ActionObject.java:37)
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     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.execute(SingleThread.java:100)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.run(SingleThread.java:170)
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Hi,
I hope, please try this error in SAP Notes
like
Note 907721 - "Web Dynpro Client" missing in SAP GUI 6.40
similar Note 843804 ,
Regards
Chilla..

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