LR not importing tags from Elements 5.0

I'm trying to import a (rather large) Photoshop Elements 5 catalog into Lightroom--about 32000 images, mostly Canon raw files (some .RAW from a 10D, some .CR2 from a 20D). I'm finding that Lightroom isn't importing any of the PSE tags on any of the raw files. I tried using "File > Write Tags to Files" in PSE, but that only seemed to help with tags on JPGs, not on raw files.
The LR documentation says that tags created under the default categories in PSE (e.g. "People") would be imported, but not even those were being imported for the raw files.
(I did run a "File > Recover" on the PSE side before importing into LR; the first time I tried into LR it crashed after the import even though I had run a Recover, but the second time it was successful. It didn't get the RAW tags either time, though.)
Is there something else I should try to get this to work?
Thanks,
nj

Paige,
Thanks for the help. I would like to make it simple but my current PC has all images in the XP "my pictures" folder as the root which of course is on C: and has a long user path. Multiple folders under that.
I really want my images on a separate hard drive on the new PC which would be D. I guess I could setup the original path on C on the new PC (since it is Vista it would be totally made up), copy them there, then MOVE them to D via LR, etc. etc. However I was hoping to keep my system file dates as is so that would change them all.
Your PSE backup and restore is an option. Although quite frankly I have not had much luck with that backup option running through to completion with most versions of PSE that I have had.
I guess the comment about version sets and stacks appearing next to each other is true. Although sorting through 1,000's to re-marry them does not appeal to me. It looks like the "auto-stack by capture time" might do a nice job of stacking original images with their edits.
I thought of perhaps installing Lightroom on the old PC, importing the catalog. THEN taking the LR catalog to the new PC. Sticking the images where I want them, and THEN hopefully LR would do a "re-connect"?? I wish LR would try to do a re-connect during the import of the PSE catalog. That would make projects like this MUCH easier.
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