Photoshop elements 5.0.2 restore catalog

I recently had to rebuild my Vista 32 bit operating system. After that I installed PSE 5.0.2 and Premiere Elements 3.0.2 again. After the installations had completed I started PSE with the "view and Organize photos" option and then went to RESTORE catalog so that I could restore from a full catalog backup I had taken earlier. The restore appeared to be successful but when I remove the last CD from a multi-CD backup, PSE just seemed to freeze up. When I start the task monitor it indicates that PSE is "not responding". After that I terminate PSE. I have reinstalled both Adobe applications several times with the same results. I have also deleted the MY Calalog.PSA entries and all entries in the my pictures folders so that the next catalog restore I did would have a clean start. Nothing changed. I have thousands of photos in this catalog and really need to get it restored.
I should add that the first time I restored the catalog after reinstalling PSE it appeared to be successful. The collections and tags were there. I then decided to create an new catalog with the name "My Catalog 2009" for any future pictures to reside in. After that I was never able to get PSE to run again. Anytime I started it, it appeared to freeze up.
I checked another thread with a similar problem that suggested starting PSE and hitting cntl, alt, shift inorder to get to catalog selection entries. I did that and renamed "My Catalog" to something else. Then when PSE started I created another catalog and put on picture in it. That worked fine. Then I restored the catalog from another full backup, thinking the one I had previously used was bad. But the same thing happened again. After the restore had complete PSE froze up. All my full backups can't be bad. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Greg

I'm not sure about the backup problem.
Freezing when you open PSE 5.0.2 in Vista is fixed via this: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb400848&sliceId=1
Guess: This could fix the backup problem as well.

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