PSE8: Can't import a PSE6-Catalog

Hi forum,
I just installed Windows 7 Home Premium on my notebook. It was a clean install - no upgrade!
I installed the trial version of PSE8 - not problems.
Now I started PSE8 and would like to import my PSE6 catalog from an external hard disk. The import works fine - all photos have been restored.
But now the problem: PSE8 was unable to upgrade the catalog! PSE8 tried to upgrade the catalog, but stooped with an error message.
The PSE6 catalog is ok and has no problems - I have checked that twice.
My question now: How can I get PSE8 to import and upgrade my PSE6 catalog?
Regards,
Oliver

OK - here some more information:
1. after checking the PSE6 catalog in a WinXP virtual machine I decided to install PSE8 to that virtual machine and try to restore again. With WinXP PSE8 was able to restore and to convert the PSE6 catalog. Why can PSE8 do this under WinXP without errors and can not do this under Win7 (clean install) ???
2. I used the PSE8 in my virtual machine now to write a new backup of the converted catalog to my external harddrive. PSE8 managed to get this done.
3. Now I switched back to Win7 (with is my host operation system on my norebook) and started PSE8. Again I started a restore operation, but now I want PSE8 to restore the PSE8 catalog I have created in my virtual machine. PSE8 was able to restore that catalog, but did not managed to recreate the file structure of my pictures. I have save my pictures in a folder structure, but PSE8 was not able to recreate that folder structre. Instead PSE8 placed all folders flat in the root folder where wanted PSE8 to restore my pictures. The folder structure is lost - although I told PSE8 to recreate the folder structure.
4. I now try to manually restore the folder structure an let PSE8 rebuild its database. Hope this way I will get back my catalog and the folder structure of my pictures.
Let me say this: I was a great fan of photoshop elements. I worked with version 3, 4 and 6 without any problems. Everytime I started an upgrade this upgrade was easy and error-free. In my opinion PSE was a very reliable piece of software.
With PSE8 my mind changed. PSE8 is not able to restore an error-free PSE6 catalog. That's very poor and I think Adobe needs to rework PSE8.
Regards,
Oliver

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