Help in restoring PSE6 catalog to PSE9

My PC computer hard drive crashed. I do backup, but I had not backed up my PSE6 catalog for about 3-4 months. I do have all my photos backed up though. I'm going to restore the catalog to a new PC running Win 7 so I upgraded to PSE9 since I understand PSE6 doesn't work with Win7.
Here is my plan.
(1) copy all my photos folders to the new computer. I organize my folders by year and date.
(2) install PSE9 and restore the PSE6 catalog to Organizer in the new computer.
(3) import the additional photos taken after the last catalog backup into the PSE9 Organizer and tag all of them.
(4) if all looks right I would backup the new catalog.
Does this make sense?? I'm just concerned that I am forgetting something.
Comments will be appreciated.
Barbara

I am trying to do a similar conversion. I have my PSE6 backup and I recently installed PSE9 on a new computer running Windows 7. I am unable to restore. The error message says "invalid backup". The backup files are Backup.tly and catalog.buc. I do not have PSE6 anymore; all was lost with a hard disc failure. I have all my pictures backed up with the file structure intact. And I can not locate my PSE6 install files. If I could obtain those files, should I pursue installing PSE6; restoring to PSE6, then converting to PSE9?

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How can I get the information from my PSE6 catalog up and running in PSE9?
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Hello,
Thank you for any help you can give with this rather desperate problem.
I have installed a replacement hard drive in my Dell Windows Vista laptop and reloaded Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0. I am unable to reconnect Elements with my old photo organizer catalog.
Thus the system says I have Elements installed, with a catalog with zero photos in it. When in fact I have 12,000 fotos all captioned, dated and tagged for the Elements organizer.
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You copied the backup onto your new hard drive? Yes or no? Where was it before?
Then did you try to restore to the exact same location where you placed the copy?
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