Moving pics from a pc to mac - keeps locking up

I recently made the jump to Mac from a pc.
I have about 10,000 photos ~ 22 GB and I have them stored on a external HD, firewire.
About 8,000 of the photos are in one folder b/c I used adobe photoshop album to store and sort them. It worked great until this transfer.
Whenever I try to drag and drop, the computer may get through a few hundred and then the black screen appears and tells me to hold the power button down to restart.
I called tech support, but they said that when too many files are dragged over this will happen. I have to break the files into about 100 photos per file and then drag each folder over.
You do the math, I don't want to do that.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Please?!

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