PSE 5.0 won't open

I use PSE 5.0 and our hard drive recently crashed. The majority of the pictures were backed up to an external hard drive. I have since reinstalled PSE 5.0 and was able to restore the pictures from the external drive. However, after the pictures were sucessfully restored PSE froze up while trying to load the catalog and will no longer open. I get the title screen to appear, but since I changed the menu screen to open in organizer I get nothing after that. The restore included about 6,000 pictures.

What operating system are you using?
Assuming you are using Vista or Windows 7, please make sure you have the PSE 5.0.2 patch installed, and then also follow these instructions:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3752226#3752226

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