PSE4 (XP) - PSE13 (Mac) migration

I have my pictures organized on a Windows XP box (Service Pack 3) running PSE 4.0 and I have to migrate to Mac.  I have PSE 10 and PSE 13 on the Mac.  The migration instructions say that I have to have the same version running on both XP and MacOS. Unfortunately, PSE 13 evidently won't run on XP and I can't find a  trial version of PSE 10 to install on XP. How do I proceed?

First thank you, especially Barbara, for your help.  I have succeeded in creating the backup (complete with .tly !) I loaded the backup onto the Mac, and it seemed sucessful except...  There are a few photos for which the actual photo file is missing.  I'd like to clean these up.  If I click on one to do so it opens a window that says "Searching for missing file.  ... To locate the file yourself, click Browse" with Browse and Cancel buttons present.  There is a spinning rainbow disk.  Clicking on either Browse or Cancel does nothing and the disk continues to spin.  For hours.  I can kill PSE, but next time I open it and try to clean up the offending photo, the same thing happens.  Suggestions?

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