LR4 catalogue poblems

I've installed LR4 and it created its new catalogue from my old one from v3.5. Like others I am finding it slower by a good marging than v3 but today I have found a worrying behaviour.
I added a couple of images to a collection which was correctly carried over from v3. I then went to the Web module to create and upload a Flash Gallery (no problems doing this in 3.5). It seems to take much more tiume than the old version but I've not timed them. However at the end, an error message appears saying that original files are missing.
So, I ran the same routine in v3.5 and there was no problem at all.
I was wondering if it was a problem caused during the creation of the catalogue but when I tried v4 again the same error message appeared but with only one "missing file" this time.
I'm mystified - has anyone seen this or is able to reproduce the proble - or even shed on light on what might be going on?
David

Thanks very much for quick reply. I theorised that LR4 had trouble picking the right LR3 catalogue to upgrade as I have 3 listed, so I used LR4 to open the latest LR3 catalogue, then upgraded that as per LR4 prompt, and all my pictures were back agan!
Next problem was that I got a 'No image selected' message in Develop and no images in filmstrip: a Google search on that issue suggested simply restarting LR4 and indeed that sorted that issue!
So now seem to be up and running!
Thanks again for stepping in and helping.
Mark

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