Lightroom PSE6 Import

I wish to move from Photoshop Elements 6 to Lightroom (1.3.1) running on Windows Vista. However I can't get Lightroom to import the PSE6 catalog. From what I can make out PSE6 uses a different catalog format from PSE5 and LR doesn't seem to recognise this.
I find it hard to believe that that the latest version of LR can't import from the latest version of PSE. Does anyone know how to make this work (even if it involves exporting the PSE6 catalog first)
Note: I've 20,000+ photo's in PSE6 and make use of the Album's feature to sort them, hence the need to import the catalog rather than simply importing the files
Regards
Mike

i have a real problem with your advice .
i took it and when i opened LR all my images had gone !!!!
the good side of this is that my back up was up to date.
any other suggestions ?>????????

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