PSE 8 catalog issue with Lr3

I installed PSE 8 and then installed Lightroom 3 and did the catalog upgrade conversion.
but now my PSE 8 catalog has not updated in a few months and when I try to import or get PSE 8 to update the catalog - it stops due to errors.
And additionally, for whatever reason, it does not like the jpegs from my cell phone...
Should I start importing into PSE 8 from now on - and then secondly import into LR3 - or is there any benefit to that?
Thanks for your help

I'm sorry - I installed the new ACR 6.2 "64 bit" version and forgot that for whatever reason... the 64bit version does not work - so - I replaced it with the 32 bit version and I was able to import my files for the catalog.
I have win7 64bit.
So, not I have the PSE8 catalog running if I need it.
Thank-you!

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Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 20:40:38 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Issue with PSE 9 Editor
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http://forums.adobe.com/message/5711110#5711110
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