LightRoom 2.4 Trial & Catalog Import

Hi
I currently use PSE 7.0
I am interested in trying the latest version of Lightroom.
Is there a 2.4 Trial? Where is it? I can only find the 2.0 trial on Adobe site.
Also
Did Adobe fix the PSE 7 catalog import.
Can Lightroom 2.4 Import PSE 7 catalogs?
Thank-You

Hello dj paige
Yes, I am very sure, that the PSE Versionsets of my PSE V6 catalog have been converted to Lightroom Stacks.
I do not know, why our experiences are different.
Is it because i converted a V6 catalog while you converted a V5 catalog?
or is it because with my PSE catalog, all Versions within the same Versionset are in the same Windows Folder (I believe to have heard once - but I am not 100% sure about it - that Lightroom has some stacking restrictions for photo files that are not in the same folder)
or is it because you have perhaps your PSE Versionsets imbedded within PSE Stacks (my PSE Catalog has nearly no Stacks)
Notice also, that I am running a Windows XP Professional PC
I should tell that I was very positively surprised to see how well the conversion of my large Catalog did function.
I would recommend to PSE V7 users (who can not yet convert their PSE V7 Catalog to Lightroom with the current Lightroom version) to see if they have a usable PSE V6 catalog (e.g. a backup that they created some time ago) and to try to convert this V6 catalog. This will allow them to see (before the advent of the next Lightroom version) whether the catalog conversion will (probably) function well with their particular environment and catalog.
Some restrictions that i am aware of the PSE--> Lightrrom Catalog Conversion are:
Lightroom does not support all media file types (e.g. no support for .pdf and for video-type file formats)
Lightroom does not support (as far as i know) a conversion of PSE Creations (in my particular case, that is not a problem, because all my PSE Creations are based on PSE Collections and it is sufficient for me, that the Collections get converted)
My PSE V6 Catalog is a catalog that was originally a PSA V2 catalog, that got converted to PSE V3, and then to PSE V4, and then to PSE V5 and finally to PSE V6. One or two old versions of PSE/PSA were storing folder names incorrectly/inconsistently in the PSE catalog - sometimes with Capital Letters and some other times with small letters...and this created confusions and problems for the conversion of my PSE V6 catalog to Lightroom. I will be glad to describe a workaround (that will probably work) for this kind of problems.
Also, I have no idea what happens when converting a PSE Catalog that contains PSE Versionssets within PSE stacks (I am not using PSE stacks).

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