Photoshop Elements 8 - maintaining a photo master

Hello,
I recently purchased Elements 8 to help manage a large amount of photos.  I am taking about 500 pictures per weekend, and then manipulating approx 10-20 of them.  Previously I would place the 500 photos for a given weekend into a "master" folder, and then make a copy of that folder as my "working" folder.  I would then delete the bad photos and modify the ones that were the best...but always keeping the same filename as the original (since the reside in different directories).  Anyway, when I started using Elements, it found the 2 versions of the files (same name, but one was modified), and it didn't seem to recognize both (or maybe it did, but I am too new at this).
I assume others have similar needs to keep a master copy of photos, so I would be interested to hear the workflow used with Elements 8.0
Thanks,
John

You may look at following links for more info on version sets, there creation and all about them.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PhotoshopElements/6.0/help.html?content=WSae2ea3b149d0c3591ae9 39f103860b3d59-7f5f.html
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/331/331489.html
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/photoshopelements/articles/lrvid2321_pse.html

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