Moving Catalogs from XP Pro to Win 7 on a new pc

Here's what I wish to do. [ I apologize for all of the detail that follows, but I am trying to be careful with this.]
I want to move my PSE 8 catalog, and all of my pictures, from my old to my new pc. The old pc has XP Pro, the new one uses Windows 7. PSE 8 is on both machines.
Here's what I've done. Using the Easy Transfer s/w I've moved all of my Documents files from one pc to the other. This included the My Pictures folder, so now all of my photos (some 28,000), and some videos are on the new pc. I installed PSE 8 on the new pc with the orginal disk. It seems to be working fine. I copied the catalog files on the old pc onto a thumb drive and installed that on the new pc. That did not enable me to restore the catalog, however. I now realize that I should have used the Backup Catalog command to backup the existing catalogs on my old pc and move that. I have done that by backing up to an external hard drive.
Before I move the hard drive to my new pc and click on the Restore Catalog button, I thought I'd ask: should I delete the photo files that I have already transferred to the Pictures file on my new pc? When I use the Restore Catalog function on the new machine, does it also transfer all of my photos? I can't seem to find a clear statement of that anywhere. If it does, then it seems obvious that I will need to delete all of the recently moved photos before I do the Restore catalog routine on my new pc. Otherwise I would wind up with two of everything.
Thanks to any and everyone who helps me through what seems like a big problem, but probably isn't (I hope).

That was good advice, thank you dj. However, and it always seems that there is a however, I was really trying to move 2 catalogs that I had on my old pc in PSE 8..
I backed them both up to an external hard drive, deleted all of the files from my new pc, and then went to the external hard drive and hit the Restore Catalog button. I also established a new Catalog for the second catalog that I was attemting to restore. One loaded nicely and then the other, BUT, the second RESTORE apparently deleted the first! I've done this twice now, with the same results, even switching which one loaded first. What am I doing wrong?
Also, when it does load into the PICTURES library on Win 7 it loads a staggering number of folders and files on top on the final folder where the actual pictures are stored. What a pain to drill down to the actual folders where the pictures are. Anyone know of any harm in moving them up several layers in the folder structure? I even used the Restore option New Location/Restore Original Folder Structure option. It apparently has kept the original structures but it did load a whole pile of folders on top of the pictures.
Many thanks once again for your guidance and support.

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