Moving Elements 10 catalog into LR

I have been using Elements 10 and have thousands of photos all tagged, rated and grouped into albums. I bought LR3 and generally like it -- but can't find a way to import my E10 catalog into LR3. Am I missing something about LR3. Will LR4 do this?

I am running up against this same problem. I definitely want to convert to LR3 then 4.... in the next 25 days the release of 4 will be happening according to my "source" at Adobe.
I could NOT get information about whether or not the conversion option would be in that version for the PSE10 catalog....
I would think that somebody for sure would have a beta version that they downloaded that could tell us whether or not the conversion option was there! I was told the actual release of 4 will be exactly like the beta version now! I don't want to download the beta version myself because I am already running a trial of LR3 that is good for another 25 days, and I'm hoping to buy a full license at a deal price sometime in that stretch of time and then get the upgrade price on the licensed version of LR4. Does that make sense. One replaces the other on your computer so I can't decide to just do two installs and run the trials separately.
A dilemma.
Anyhow, I have a brand new computer with only PSE 10 on it and a backup image of my old system with PSE 9 catalog files in a .tib file. I can copy individual files from this .tib but can't mount it for some reason unknown to me. it gives me an error. So I was hoping and already tried copying the mycatalog.psedb file into what would be the default folder on my new OS (different from my old - XPpro to W7). That didn't work. Darn.
anyhow. any suggestions or new information on this problem will be greatly appreciated and anticipated. I'm anxious to get my stuff into Lightroom so I can start learning all the cool stuff it can do! 50,000 images to transfer and more to import!
Kelli

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Thanks for your response. I had no idea it wasn't necessary to manually move over the contents of the "My Pictures" folder on my PC when I moved to my Mac. I always assumed (obviously incorrectly) that restoring the catalog was simply necessary to read what was already moved over in My Pictures and that if that had already not been done, I would not be able to open any of the pictures in the organizer. Similar to what happens when you delete something in the My Pictures folder but not from the Organizer.
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