PSE 9 Organizer Error Adding Keyword Tags and Other Woes

Hello, everyone. I am having a ton of problems with PSE 9 Organizer. The most frustrating and biggest problem is that I believe my catalog has been corrupted beyond repair. I spent all of yesterday tagging my photos. I had no problems and everything seemed to be going well until all of the sudden, the organizer suddenly froze up. I had to use the Windows task manager just to get it to close. This happened several times. Finally, the organizer locked up my computer and I had to restart. I opened the catalog and didn't seem to have any problems at that point. I was able to view all of the images, video files etc. I was even able to open the editor from the organizer. When I tried to add a tag to a photo it gave me an error. All it said was "error adding keyword tag" then nothing. I tried to delete the photo and all it said was "error deleting photo". This "error" shows up any time I try to make any changes to all of the images. I can't add any new photos, can't delete, or add tags. I have repaired the catalog several times. It found errors the first time, but evidently that didn't fix my problem. I also optimized and deleted my thumbnail cache to see if that was the issue. Still nothing. I have other catalogs and they work fine, so it is something to do with this particular catalog. Any suggestions on what to do next? Can I move the pictures to a new catalog without losing the tags? And no, I didn't write the tags to the images because I wasn't done tagging. Besides, PSE doesn't always write the tags correctly, as you probably know. Next problem. When I first open PSE and select the organizer, it doesn't alway open. I can see it on my taskbar (Windows 7 64 bit), but I can't get the window to maximize. I have to close and open several times to get the window to open. Sometimes it randomly jumps to my second monitor like it can't decide where to go. Very frustrating. I would appreciate any suggestions about what to do. Thanks.

Back to the original question, after thinking about this for a couple days I have had two ideas for workarounds:
1) Copy my tag names into the photo metadata and create a new catalog to bring all of my images into. This will allow me to keep all of my existing tags, and it MIGHT solve the tag display problem based on a test with a couple images in a new catalog. The downsides to this are a) permanently writes my tags into the photo metadata which will be bad if I decide to change something later, b) loses all version sets, and c) loses all albums (although I don't have that many). I found instructions for this workaround at http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Merging_Catalogs.
2) Live with the lack of color tag display in Organizer, and use reverse searches to find missing tag categories. For example, if I want to find all photos that do not have a "Places" tag, I check the box next to the "Places" category (which also selects all sub-categories and tags below this). Then I go to the Options drop-down in the Find Bar and "Hide best match results" and "Show results that do not match". This gives me every image in my catalog that does not have a tag from the "Places" category, so I can go through and tag these as appropriate.
I would have gone with #1 if it weren't for the permanence of the keywords. I guess I have a commitment problem (or I just haven't got my tag hierarchy figured out yet). Instead, I am going with #2 which should give me most of what I need for now. I will still hold out some small glimmer of hope that Adobe manages a fix for this issue down the road.

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I spent more than a week evaluating Organizer 9 for my use by playing with a test catalog with several raw photos from various cameras I have. I tried everything I could think of and posted here a few times asking questions. Everything seemed to be working well. I also saw posts saying some people had 100k photos in Organizer. All looked good. I wanted to be fairly confident before importing my 50k out-of-camera original photos and then spending a lot of time on adding keywords and star ratings since I didn't want to waste all that time and work if Organizer would not be a good fit for what I want or didn't work well. All signals were go.
A few days ago I got started on the real catalog. I turned off all the analyze stuff since I don't need it and it was likely to just slow the computer down. I imported about 50k photos. I then started adding keywords. I first made a pass through all photos and assigned a keyword for each photo that had the country or U.S. state where the photo was taken. No problems.
I then started another pass through all the photos adding one or two more keywords to some of the photos. I have been having problems with this though. I often, but not always, get a pop-up window with a message from Organizer saying it got an error adding a keyword to a photo. I click Okay and then Organizer hangs for several seconds and down at the bottom left of the screen it says Searching. Finally Organizer comes back, but now the thumbnail view doesn't show all the photos -- it shows only a subset. I then click Show all and then spend a lot of time scrolling into the 50k photos and looking for where I left off before the error. I then try to assign the keyword to the photo again and get the error again. I click okay again. This time it also says Searching for a few seconds, but when Organizer is ready again this time the thumbnail view has not changed so that is good. I then add the keyword and this time it works. Whenever I get the error the exact same sequence happens exactly like this with no variations:
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4. I click on Show all and scroll down to where I left off
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7. Wait with Searching shown in the lower left
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9. Try to assign keyword again and this time it succeeds
By the way, the error window I get says: Error Applying Keyword Tag(s). It always is this same sequence. Much of the time I get no errors and then I will get one and go through the above sequence. I often can do a few more with no error and then an error again. It seems to be random. Sometimes it might happen 2 or 3 times in a row and sometimes it takes a long time until it happens again.
I repaired the catalog, but it said there were no errors. I also optimized the catalog. Remember that I have just imported the photos and have been adding keywords. I have not actually made much use of the catalog. I have not been deleting or anything else. Just import and add keywords.
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photodrawken wrote:
Where are the photos stored?
Where is the catalog located?
Are you running Windows?
How many drives on your computer, and how much free space on each?
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The photos are on a 1tb USB 2.0 external hd. The catalog is on my computer local C: drive. I am running Win7 64-bit. The C: drive has 151gb free. The external hd has 245gb free. The PSE scratch disk is the default since I haven't changed anything, I suppose that would be the C: drive.
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