PS 7-Transfer to new Computer

I have a new computer and want to transfer all my photos to it into Photoshop Elements 7 Organizer. I previously had them in Drive D on an XP computer but my new one is a Vista 64bit. I don't have Drive D available on this computer and want to put them on another, possibly external, drive.
How can I do this without losing my sorting, captions, tags, etc. I have over 4,000 pictures and don't want to have to go through this again.
Pat

Does anyone know what to do if the original computer crashed...and if the data is accessible by taking the hdd drive and putting it in an external enclosure? Can you install PE7 on a new machine, add the photos and folders (exactly as they were) and then copy over any of the database files? Would that work? If so, which db files?
Thanks.

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