Help drawing curved line - please!!!

Seriously, I can't find a tool to draw a curved line in PSE 6! I was told to use the "pen tool" but I can't find it. I was told to make the selection right clicming on Pencil and has no options other than for a freehand drawing with the mouse. The "shapes" tool will only give me a straight line. What the heck am I missing?
Thanks!

The pen tool is only in Photoshop, not elements. You can draw freehand with the brush or pencil tools (you can put something on a separate layer below and trace the edge if you need help), or you can draw a selection with the elliptical marquee tool, go to Edit>Stroke (outline) selection to color it, then erase the parts you don't want.
The custom shape tool draws many shapes. It sounds like you have the line tool selected. Hold down its icon in the toolbox and you'll see several other tools in there. The polygon tool with the rounded corners option turned on will draw circles, although it's not supposed to.

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Thanks for your response.
I'm a little confused-
"Paths are not pixels, so unless you
• use a Path as Vector Masks on Layer/Group that has content
• apply "stroke Path with …"
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Does this mean that if I make the path with my curved line on it into a vector mask, apply a stroke path and then use the path as a clipping path, it will show up in my document? I tried doing this and it didn't work- when I saved out a jpeg it was blank.
If it makes it any clearer, this is what I'm trying to get to be part of my pixel output:
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I have been BEATING my head on this for well over a week now. I'm new to Java2D and I cannot find even one example of this simple little thing that I am trying to do. Not one.
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