PhotoShop Organizer Freezes when "Getting Photos" finishes

The Organizer opens and another window opens titled “Files Ready for Import”.
With or without the box checked the only thing to do is click OK.
That starts a window titled “Getting Photos”. If there are Photos to load the progress bar fills and apparently the photos are added to the organizer but the window locks up and even the stop button does nothing. The Task Manger must be used to kill the Organizer process. This tries to run even when no new photos are available. I can not get into the Organizer to disable the "Watch Folders".
I have tried to uninstall and re-install the Photoshop Application but it made no difference.
Please see the attachment for further details and the Adobe response... or lack thereof.
Does anyone know a way to Disable the Watch function?
I would rather add the required folders/photos to the catalog manually when needed than fight this.

The screen shot from your original post was missing -- I should have asked about that before assuming the problem was really watched folders.  I bet the window you're seeing looks like this:
This comes not from the Watch Folders feature but from the Adobe Photo Downloader, which downloads photos from cameras and scanners.
Apparently what's happened is that PSE terminated after the APD downloaded some photos but before they got imported into the catalog.  Now every time you start PSE, it first tries to import those photos, which is crashing PSE for some reason before the photos get fully imported.
To break this cycle, delete the contents of the following folder:
Vista: C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\5.0\APDLogs
XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\5.0\APDLogs
(I'm not positive about the XP folder -- I'm translating from the location on my Vista machine.)  I bet there's a .xml file in that folder that contains the list of files that PSE is trying to import.  

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