PSE 10 organizer crashes when more than 600 imported photos

Question

First I imported 2200 photos and tried to use the facial recognition. After a while the organizer shut down with no error warning.
Further attempts to start failed.
Only chance by pressing shift+alt+ctrl and creating a new catalogue.
I'm working with WinXP SP3,  memory 2GB and a 1,8 GH dual core processor.

Answer 1

I am having similar problems.
First my specs.  I have a two-month old HP p6722f with 64-bit Windows 7 Pro, 6GB RAM, 3GHz Athlon quad processors.  My C drive (windows system drive) has 788 GB free space.  The other internal drive where all of my photos are located has 841 GB free space.  There are 13,269 images (45GB) that Elements 10 is trying to import.
I have tried this import from my newly installed Elements 10 at least a dozen times.  I have rebooted fresh several times.  I have set the affinity to just one processor, and i have rotated which processor I used with each failure.  I have set the affinity to two processors as well as all 4.  I have turned off all Media Analysis features in Preferences. I have made sure no other apps are running during the import.  I have used Task Manager to monitor my system during the import.  The CPU usage stays between 20-28%.  The RAM usage stays around 1.96 to 2.08 GB (I have 6GB RAM).  The import fails anywhere from 45% to 95%, but mostly at 95%.  Even after 95% the popup indicates that I should have at least 95% of the images imported.  But there is never a single one imported.
I have read on these and many other forums that lots of people are having the same problem.  Here is my theory...
This software STINKS!  My computer has pretty strong specs, certainly way more than the minimum to run this program.  My image collection is rather small.  For $99 I expect way more, especially from a company with Adobe's history.  I have not had any issues with crashing from the several other dozen apps on my system (including some resource heavy apps like video editing programs and the old Photoshop 6.0).  Having to jump through all of these hoops with affinity settings and the like just to get nowhere is embarrasing on Adobe's part.  Just for kicks I downloaded the free Picasa 3.  It imported my 13k+ images in about 5 minutes with no issues.  So there is nothing wrong or corrupt with any of my images that Elements should be choking on.  So after messing around with Elements for over an hour I still do not have a single image in my catalog. Sure, I can try importing my hundreds of image folders one by one and try to figure out more about what is going on.  but doesn't that totally defeat the purpose of a photo management system?  I might as well just continue to use well-named folders in Windows Explorer as my "management" system if I have to go to those lengths.
I watched all of the videos on the Adobe site about all of the awesome features in the new Elements 10.  Does Adobe understand that you actually have to be able to import the images into the application to manipulate them?  This has been a bad experience from start to finish and I am not going to waste any more time on this poor implementation of their new software.  How about a little QC Adobe before asking $100 for your software?