PSE 7 Move all files & folders to another location

I have 3000 pictures in the following folder structure in Windows 7: C:\Users\User Name\Documents\My Pictures
Under that structure there are 9 folders i.e., Family, Military Service, Friends etc. that contain the actual photos:
I want to move the entire thing catalog and all to C:\My Photos
without having to do a bunch of re-working.  There must be a way to do it but I can't figure it out.
So that the 9 folders and all the sub-folders are directly under the C:\My Photos folder
I cannot figure out how to do it.  The move command is constantly grayed out on my File Menu so I cannot access it.
Thanks for any help
John

Hi Paige
Well it does not seem to be working out for me.
Here is what I am trying to accomplish.
I just went to Windows 7.  I am using a dual boot system with two hard disk drives.  One has XP Pro on it which I used with PSE for years with no problems,  The other drive has Windows 7 on it. When I boot from the XP drive the Windows 7 drive becomes drive D and of course when I boot from the Windows 7 drive the XP drive becomes drive D.
All of my PSE 7 photos on the XP drive are backed up to external drives using the PSE backup function.  I have PSE 7 installed on the Wlndows 7 drive and working.  The XP drive has the old file structure that I found to be laborious as I explained in my first post.  I wanted to import all of my pictures from one of the PSE backups onto the Windows 7 drive and use the new folder structure I described in my first post, C:\Family Photos.
I booted using the Windows 7 drive, loaded PSE 7 and selected the backup recovery function.  I restored from the PSE backup drive which was Drive G  that was created by the backup function in the XP version of PSE 7.   I restored to a temporary folder (C:\Hold Pictures) using the original structure (C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\My Pictures.  My intent was to get the old file structure on to the Windows 7 drive and then using PSE folder display as you described move the pictures folder to C:\Family Pictures.  It restored the files correctly to the \Users\User Name\My Pictures folders of course it went much deeper than that to get to the actual pictures.  I then tried to move the folder (Pictures) using PSE but nothing worked right.  PSE seemed to handle it correctly but when I looked at the properties of the pictures in the catalog they were all to Drive D (the XP drive) using the old structure and not on the C: drive which they should have been..
I finally gave up and will work on this again some other time.  I removed PSE7 from the Windows 7 computer in that it is probably a mess on the catalogs and I thought I had better start fresh.
I hope all the above makes sense.  Obviously I am doing something quite wrong in the procedure
Thanks for your help
John

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