Error importing Elements 8 (PSE8) catalogue in Lightroom 3 (LR3)

Help!
(using windows XP with SP2, on a mac running VMware; hence all the adobe software is running in the windows operating system)
I previously owned Adobe photoshop album 2.0. Photos organised in collections, tagged and many photos have captions.
I have tried to the upgrade path to LR3.
I used a trial version of Photoshop elements 5 (PSE5). I managed to sucessfuly import the PSA 2 catalogue, fully preserved.
I used a trial version of Photoshop elements 8 (PSE8) and also managed to sucessfuly import the PSA 5 catalogue, and also fully preserved.
I bought the student edition of Lightroom 3 (LR3). on opening it, I try then to convert the PSE8 catalogy. It seems to start the process and the progress bar gradually fills to about half way before it stops. The message displays: "Lightroom encountered problems when trying to upgrade photoshop elements
> catalog and cannot complete the operation"
I tried several times, and always the same.
Has anyone else had this problem or have an answer?
Best wishes
Philip
(using windows XP with SP2, on a mac running VMware; hence all the adobe software is running in the windows operating system)

Hi Becky
I wanted you to know that it worked. It imported/upgraded the elements
8 catalog seamlessly.
I have basically managed to uprgade all the way from adobe photoshop
album 2.0 to Lightroom 3.2 by first upgrading to Elements 5, then
Elements 8. Everything seems to be intact (ie collections, tags etc)
PS I now have Elements 3.2 on windows xp and want to merge that
converted catalog with the new one for Light room 3 on my mac. I
presume I must first upgrade to LR3.2 on the mac. But how do I then
merge the windows XP version (which has 10,000 plus photos) with my
recently installed Mac one (which has 1000 plus photos)?
Many thanks
Philip

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