Network drive on windows

I'm running the latest Adobe Elements (Photoshop and Premiere) and having a PITA using the Elements Organizer.  I store my photos from several devices on a network.  I have a 1 TB Western Digital USB drive connected to my old trusty Linksys E3000 router.  This drive is "mapped" as a local drive under Windows on four different computers in my house.  They all run a version of Windows from XP to Windows 7, but every host can "see" and read the mapped drive.  Elements "looses it" all the time when I try to do virtually anything with the photos archived on that drive.  Microsoft versions of Explorer have no problems referencing the files either as a "mapped" local drive or as a "network" drive if I reference it that way.  Adobe elements "hangs up" all the time when I try to do virtually anything that involves my photo archive out on that drive.  I bought the drive so I could keep all my photos under my own network and keep them at the originating device's densest resolution.  It works for that, but Elements is about as useless at "tits on a bull" when I try to use my photo index to do anything other than look at stuff that has been laboriously imported.  Every time I import photos from my phone, which I do directly to the drive, I should be able to tell Elements to "watch" the folder on S:\...photos\Dan's Phone, but... no joy.  Google's Picasa 3 which is "free" does not seem to have the same problems with this drive or folder references..
I've been tolerating this PITA since Release 10 of Photoshop Elements hoping for a technical solution to be identified and fixed, largely because I don't really use Elements that much, but I'm sick of paying for software upgrades that do not work.
I'm a retired software implementation "Geek" who learned FORTRAN and assembly code on my first computer in 1961 when FORTRAN compiled in 18K of 32 bit words on the IBM1620 via a two pass card based compiler.  I've dealt with every generation of software development since, and I've worked with a lot of good products and some terrible ones over the years.  I'm well aware of the oddities of my own network which is certified at 1000mbps, but which has a lot of slower devices on it.  I used to run Apple OS, UNIX, OS/2 and Windows computers on earlier versions of my network and did a lot of software testing and development work for clients until I retired.  I hate to say it, but this problem has got me in "DEBUG" mode.  There must be a problem Elements Organizer is not handling as it should, I suspect a "network timeout" trigger somewhere, or the software which is supposed to "watch" a particular folder which refuses to remember its' pointers to the "Mapped" drive like the one I mentioned above.
What questions come to mind?  Are there any "work around" approaches that are relatively efficient I could try?  Right now I do all my archive management work at the file system level rather than using Elements features because they are so slow and flaky.  Once I get a photo in my index, I should not have to go out to the file system to get it, move it to a local drive, and re-add it to my index before I can work on it.  I currently put selected files in a work folder and use a separate tiny organizer index when I get serious about working on something in particular, but frankly I bought the Organizer so that I would not have to do all this ****!

I am afraid the sad truth is that the organizer is not meant to work satisfactorily with network drives. I have yet to see testimonies of successful implementations.
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Storing_the_catalog
I am not a network specialist like you, but it's highly unlikely that Adobe wants the organizer to work with shared catalogs.
If you look at the same problem with Lightroom, you get this:
Lightroom: Multi-User / Multi Computer (Shared catalog on a network)
Adobe is just promoting the use of Revel as a sharing system.
The only way to share catalogs and images supported by Adobe for Elements is to store them on an external drive you plug in alternatively to the different computers.

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