Help using multiple computers and one shared external drive

I just "bought" the new LR / PS combo special.  I have 3 computers, 2 PC's in seperate cities and a laptop that I use on the road. I would like to use an external hard drive as the main drive.  This way I could take the drive with me.
2 Questions....First I tried to learn the basics using the internal hard drive on PC#2.  I then set up a external drive with multiple folders but within one main folder. I then started importing to the external drive using PC#2 (which is at my vacation property). Everything went smooth until I tried to import from that external drive,  It does not open that catalog. I am saving them as digital negatives.
Question #2 which I have not tried yet is PC#1 which is my main home computer does not have LR.  I have years of photos in hundreds of files sorted in bridge that have to be renamed and put on the hard drive.  It does not have the latest version of PS and I have lots of money invested in plug ins. How can I get lightroom on that computer and will it talk to what I believe is the prior version of photoshop. I don't even want to think about all the plug ins.
It's pretty clear that I am lost.  I was going to continue using bridge and PS but there is no bridge on the new version, at least not on the $9.99 special.  From what I've seen, LR is the way to go.
HELP

Mantis wrote:
I was going to continue using bridge and PS but there is no bridge on the new version, at least not on the $9.99 special.  From what I've seen, LR is the way to go.
Bridge should be included in the $9.99 bundle http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/faq.html#pslr-bundle

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