Elements 10 Organizer on my iMac keeps on freezing my machine?

I have only 4500 photos loaded and cataloging them into cats. I have 12 gigs of ram on my 64 bit Mac 27 inch (new) and it is the most frustrating thing. Can only switch power off and restart Mac to get it going again. Organizer restarts and loads the last picture i was working on?
The machine also has Elements Photoshop and Premier as well as CS5 loaded.
Any ideas/help would be welcomed.Robert.

  If the Editor is working, check to see if any background processes are running, which may be impairing performance.
On the menu bar click Photoshop Elements >> Preferences >> Organize & Share
Click on Media Analysis in the left hand panel and if face recognition, visual search and media analysis are selected - uncheck all the boxes and click OK
 

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