Elements 6.0 Catalog updater finds previously existing files

I recently transferred all my files and programs from old computer running XP to new system with windows 7. Before that, when I would open Elements 6.0 it would occasionally "update" and find a few files that had been added to my watched folders and import them. Now, whenever that updater runs upon opening Elements, it takes forever and finds thousands of files and tries to import them. Once it goes through this very time consuming process it tells me that none of the files were imported becasue they already exist in the catalog. I know they already exist in the catalog. Why is is recognizing these files and trying to import them when they are already in the catalog? I have over 18,000 images in the catalog so this process takes forever. I did install the patch that supposedly made Elements 6 compatible with Windows 7. Everything else seems to be working fine except for this one glitch. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Thanks for the answer. I did back up Elements on the system running XP and I used back up and restore to the new Windows 7 system. It successfully kept all of my keyword tags, etc. Any other ideas what may have caused this, or more importantly how to stop it without eliminating watched folders? Now that I think about your anwser though I do think my file structure is messed up due to using "Windows Easy Transfer" to move the old files to the new system. It put a My Documents, My Pictures, My Music folder into the new file structure so instead of just having Users/Pictures... I have Users/My Pictures, etc. The libraries still work just fine but there is definitely a bit of a mess going on that I just don't know enough to get it all straightened out. I do see how this is causing the problem in my quesiton. Thanks for your input. John

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