PSE 8.0 Editor Doesn't Open

OK, before I get started just let me say that I have spent the better part of a week moving my photos and catalog from an old XP computer to a new Windows 7 computer. This involved migrating my PSA 2.0 catalog to PSE 5.0 then to PSE 8.0. In the process of doing all that I was only able to convert my final catalog to 8.0 by deleting approx 500 pictures from my catalog. I've spent the entire morning retagging those 500 pics and now I thought I was finally done. Well guess what, Adobe has not gotten through dragging me through hell quite yet. After I PAID them $99 for the program I have now found out that I can't open the editor portion of the program. When I start the program and click on edit, I get the "launching editor" words that come up for a while then they disappear and I get nothing. When I am in the organizer and try to edit a picture I get about the same response. I have uninstalled the program and reinstalled with no success. I renamed the editor preference file and reopened the program thinking that might help but no dice.
I am so frustrated with this piece of crap program words can't even describe it.
So, I come begging to you users of this forum to ask if you can help out a poor miserable soul like me. I sat on hold for about 2 hours earlier in the week with Adobe thinking they could actually help fix some of my problems but that was certainly a joke. I guess all they can do is write crappy programs, they know nothing about fixing them.

Thanks so much for that tip. I did give it a try but it didn't work for me.
After working on this for most of today I'm finally happy to say that I have my problem solved. It had to do with "building Twain menu items" and I was able to find the solution on the forums.
Thank goodness for user forums because Adobe doesn't have very good customer support.

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