Photoshop 10 general guidance on captions/comments

I have been using Photfunstudio for storing phots on my PC. However I have just bought a new PC (windows 7) and on copying over all my pictures I found I lost all the 'captions' to the photos. The photofunstudio help line said 'yes that would happen and there's nothing you can do about it'. Well thanks for that! I now have the fun task of manually copying the captions from the old PC to the new one. Obviously I dont want to use Photofun studioand have to do this all again in X years when I change PC. So I am now looking for decent software that will
a. Be capable of storing comments/captions for each photo (not ON the photo, but as a comment so I can read where the picture was taken e.g. I can write and store 'Malham gorge from the north')
b. Be capable of being backed up and transferred to another PC without losing the link between the comment and photo.
c. Be capable of importing existing photos into some understandable directory tree format e.g. month/year, so I don't have to reorganise all existing photos again
Thats all I need and want. Can some kind person inform me if Photoshop 10 would do this (seems a basic task?). Many thanks.

Simon:
I concur with the other posters:
1. You are asking in the wrong place. While most of us wh odeal wit hInDesign to have to manage photos in some way, you are much better off asking in a forum devoted to photos or photo management, like one of the Photoshop forums.
2. From your description, Photofunstudio is horribly broken (I am not familiar with it). The industry standard method for maintaining captioning information is in the metadata of the photos, be it XMP metadata or IPTC metadata, and that stores the caption data either in the same file as the photo (usually), or in a seperate "sidecar" .xmp file right next to the original file (sometimes). Either way, copying the files copies the metadata. While some systems may store the metadata in an internal database, any reasonable system permits exporting that data to one of the aforementioned formats.
3. Adobe's products that deal with image metadata are Bridge, and Lightroom. They are very different kinds of tools,
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