PSE 11 Organizer has lost my images

I use Windows 7 and PSE 11. Recently as I edited a document the Editor became unresponsive to the clicks. I saved my document and exited the program so I could restart it, leaving the Organizer open on my desktop. As I went to close it I noticed that only a few items were showing (62 of the original 68,000+ images). The albums are still listed but empty. The tags are still in the tags panel, but also are empty. In other words, the box at the top of the organizer workspace says "All Media", and when I request an album or a tag it says "No Media to be Displayed". I tried importing one set of images from my hard drive that had previously been in the Organizer, but nothing was imported because "images already exist in this catalog".  Am I missing a setting somewhere that would allow me to use my catalog, or do I need to (UGH!) recatalog all of my images? I have purchased PSE 12, but have not installed it yet, hoping to recover my catalog first.
And, to the obvious next question, "Do you have a backup?", the answer is a sad and shameful, "No." I had always faithfully backed up, but the only time I needed to restore, the backup was equally corrupted. It sort of demotivated me. Suggestions?

Also, I am now trying to install PSE 12. One of the first instructions is to click Install Adobe Photoshop Elements in the Adobe Photoshop Elements dialog box. When I insert my disc in my DVD drive I don't get a PSE dialog box at all, just the Windows Autoplay dialog box asking what I would like to do with this disc. I can't believe I'm having to ask a question about installing a program from a disc! I'm pretty sure it's just me...

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