Problem importing catalogue with Windows 7

Hi,
I recently upgraded my PC from XP to Windows 7.
After I had installed Lightroom 2 I tried to import my old catalogue. This failed with the message " Lightroom cannot use the catalogue named "Lightroom 2 Catalog" because it is not writable and cannot be opened"
I re-tried with earlier backups of the catalog and has the same problem.
I noticed that during this process a similar file with the type .lock appears shortly and then disappears.
The error message looked like this:
Can anybody help me out please?
Regards
PAUL

Check permission on the folder and the catalog file. Make sure that you are 'Owner'.
HTH
Franz

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