PS Elements 6.0, Vista: Moving Files

I need to move my massive set of files off of my computer and onto an external drive (I need the space on my computer hard drive for work). I have all the files backed up already on a third hard drive. Here is the problem.
1) In order to not lose the tags for all the photos, I did "move" within photoshop, assuming that the program would then be able to know where the photos were now placed. However, when I did this operation it did not know where the photos were, so when I go to a photo in the Organizer and call it up, it has to search for it. I direct it to the new location on the external hard drive that now has the photos, but it seems to need me to do this one-by-one, which will take days with 10,000 photos. Is there a way to have it do one massive "connect" process with all photos, so I do not have to do it one-by-one?
2) In copying, it did not retain the file structure. I have all photos in files such as "Montreal with Family" or "Creative photos" which helps me locate them if I do not use photoshop. But these were not retained. The result is one massive file on the new hard drive. I am not sure why the move process did not include the file structure. How can I do a "move" that includes this file structure?
Item #1 and #2 are related. One solution is to just copy all the files, with the existing file structure, using Windows explorer, but then do a collective "hook" up from Elements 6.0 to these new files, if possible.
3) I think that the tags are really kept with the thumbnails in Elements -- not in the photo files themselves. Is that right? If so, while I have always backed up the photos themselves many times, it seems that I should also backup the thumbnail structure and tags that Photoshop uses. Where is the file kept with that information, so I can make sure to back it up?
4) While I am at it, I bought Lightroom because I heard it was better at managing files, but can not figure out how to get Lightroom to recognize the hundreds of tags I built up within Elements. Is there a way to do that? Until I know how to do that, I will not switch over to Lightroom to manage files.

Ray,
It sounds like you moved your photos to the external drive using the File > Move command. As you discovered, that command moves individual files and does not preserve the folder structure. (A point of terminology to avoid future confusion: a file is an individual photo, document, movie, etc. A folder is the thing that contains many files.)
I think you ended up with lots of missing files in your catalog because of a bug in the PSE 6 Move command. When you move a file into a folder that already has a file of the same name, that second file is permanently deleted. Since you were moving all the files in your catalog into a single folder, you were bound to end up with many that had the same name.
To move all your photo folders to the external drive preserving their structure, you can use Display > Folder Location view:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Move_your_photos
> 3) I think that the tags are really kept with the thumbnails in Elements -- not in the photo files themselves. Is that right? If so, while I have always backed up the photos themselves many times, it seems that I should also backup the thumbnail structure and tags that Photoshop uses. Where is the file kept with that information, so I can make sure to back it up?
The locations of your photos, along with tags, albums, stacks, dates/times, captions, thumbnails, etc. are stored in your catalog. You can find the location of your current catalog by doing Help > System Info. You should definitely back it up. If you use PSEs builtin backup, it will do that for you. But if you prefer to use a general-purpose backup utility, then make sure your catalog is being backed up, for sure.
> how to get Lightroom to recognize the hundreds of tags I built up within Elements.
Lightroom 2 can import PSE 6 catalogs.

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Hello Mr. Wright:
The download now works. Appreciate your help.
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:54:11 -0700
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Subject pretty much says it all.
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Thanks!

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