How Do I Get Portable?

Sorry, this is long and involved, but here's my story: I'm using PSE4 (yes, 4!) on an old desktop PC running Win XP. I know I'm on borrowed time, so I need to make some changes (soon!). I'm fairly comfortable and competent with Windows and PSE (at least the old stuff) and have some ideas, but I'm probably going to need some help and/or other ideas with the details. Here's what I would like to do:
I have something over 10k photos in a couple of hundred directories. All the photos are tagged in the PSE4 Organizer. So first, I would like to get those photos off my old PC hard drive and onto an external hard drive. Obviously I don't want to lose all the tag information in the Organizer, so I know I have to do the photo moves using the Organizer, rather than using Windows Explorer to move the files (right?). I've tried moving them once already by using the Organizer Export function. That worked (sort of) but I found that the export function did not recreate my directory structure in the destination drive. The PSE Organizer put all the photos into a single file. Everything moved and worked "OK" in doing that, but having 10,000+ photos in a single directory makes things happen WAY too slow even on my somewhat newer hardware when I'm working with the photos. So I restored my backup using PSE and moved everything back to my PC hard drive and the original multiple directory structure. Basically back to square one.
So, first question: How can I move the photos, and keep my directory structure, and keep the tag info that is in the Organizer? The only thing that comes to my mind right now is to recreate the directory tree in my destination drive, then use the Organizer to move the files from each of the source drive directories into the matching newly created destination drive directories, one directory at a time. With 200 something directories, that would be do-able, but still seems pretty labor intense. I'm sure there's a better way. Somebody clue me in, please!
Next, assuming I get the photos and all my tag information on the external drive, then I want to be able to view the photos on other computers (like my laptop running Win 7) WHILE USING THE PSE ORGANIZER. I know that I will have to purchase a newer version of PSE to run on Win 7. Assuming I purchase PSE 10 or 12 and install it on my Win 7 laptop, will PSE12 handle an old catalog created in PSE4 OK, or am I going to have issues due to versions being so far apart?
Next, I would like to save the PSE catalog file on the external hard drive with the photos. I assume that I can do that, yes? But one potential problem with that is that I've noticed that my external drive comes up as a different drive letter, depending on what computer it's connected to (due to different configurations of different computers). If the catalog file is on the external drive, is the PSE software smart enough to figure out that everything is still in the same place, even though it's called "F:\" when connected to one computer and called "G:\" when connected to a different computer? If not, I can set the drive letter of the external drive to something specific (like "P:\") to get around that, maybe. Anybody got any better idea or solution for that problem, or is it a non-problem?
Finally, since I would like to use the PSE Organizer no matter what computer I'm using, that will require having PSE on all the computers I'm using, right? Rather than having PSE on multiple computers, can I install the PSE software on the external hard drive, so it's there no matter what computer I'm using? Something tells me I probably can't do that, but has anybody tried it?
Sorry for the LONG post, but as you can see, I have several years worth of catching up to do. Any help or ideas anyone can offer would be appreciated!

Okay i looked them up and YES they are compatible with macs. if it's formatted for windows then no it will not show up on the mac, you need to repartition it on windows or try and see if you can pick it up in Disk Utility on osX. The following link is for this HD but talking about a mac PowerBook, it should be the same for you even if you are using the Intel macs. http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/other-hardware-peripherals/146258-iomega-portab le-hard-drive-not-mounting.html

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