Recovering My Catalog to a New Computer (Organizer)

My computer was in a flood and I was able to save my disk drive and copy it to a new one. This then required me to reinstall Photoshop Elements (5.0) on a new computer but of course myold catalog is not there. How can I recover my old Organizer to my new computer so that I don't have to type in all new tags, etc? I have located a file called "My Catalog" that has an old backup but is there a way to just bring in the old file into my new installation instead of the backup?

The file paths in the catalog DB will probably be different especially if moving from XP to Windows 7.
The ideal method is back-up & restore from the TLY file created within Elements back up. Is that what you have? Otherwise you will have to use File à Get Photos à From Files & Folders but some or all tags will be lost.
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/backup-restore-move-catalog-photoshop.html

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