Cataloge conversion PSE7- PSE8 dumps

I'm getting desperate; I have been a loyal user of PSE over the last 5+ years and have invested a lot of effort in tagging etc of my 42.000 pictures!
When doing the convertion of the catalouge from v7 to v8 terminates the PSE after 57% completion.
The log file (pse-conversion-log_xxx) is empty.
I've tryed http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/#_Updating_File_Metadata - the logfile is attached.
Do you have any suggestions of what to try?
I'm running Win7.
* There are no missing links.
* I've executed a repair (forced, as there were no reported errors) and an optimise in v7 prior to conversion.
* V7 were not running during conversion.
* I've tried on two different computers
BR/Flemming, Denmark
Message was edited by: Mingo59

Thanks John for your prompt and detailed reply. I've tried step 4/5 with no luck. I do not dare running with an unconverted version 7 under version 8.
So, I have no other choice than to do a manual conversion.
I'll follow the following plan:
1. Write all tag info to the jpg files using http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/ from v7.
2. create a new v8 catalouge
3. import all pictures from folders in the v8 catalouge
4. manually rebuild the tag hierarchy (380!!!)
5. store the album information from v7 using psedbtool -writeMetadata to Excel.
6. If possible then update the album info direcy to the database (ANY COMMENTS? / SUGGESTIONS)
7. If this is impossible then build a keyboard/windows macro to build my 214 albums using macro express http://www.macros.com/
BR/Flemming

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