Recovery of tags and albums from previous catalog

I recently transferred my photos and catalog to a new computer, but was not able to get PSE9 to recognize the original catalog. Adobe tech support advised me to rebuild the catalog, which was mostly succesful. However, all of the tags, albums and star ratings were lost. Is there any way to recover those from the old catalog? I have already uninstalled PSE from the old computer, but still have all of the old data files.

When I did the transfer of files from my old computer to the new one, I used Windows Easy Transfer, which moved all of My Documents folder, including My Pictures, which contains all of my photos and all of the Adobe support files, including the catalog (catalog.pse9db). I then installed PSE9 on the new computer and used the Catalog Manager to point to the catalog. Part of the problem with the catalog appeared to be that the path to the My Pictures folder was different on the new computer than it was on the old computer. I tried to Reconnect All Missing Files, but PSE was never able to find them. That's when Adobe Tech Support recommended I just rebuild the catalog.
I was pleased that the captions on the files were restored with the building of the new catalog, but the tags and albums were lost. Are they stored in the catalog or in another file? When I rebuilt the catalog, it looks like it used the existing one, since the old catalog is no longer in the Adobe My Catalog folder.
The other files in the My Catalog folder are:
backupCt.dat
collstatus.dat
face.thumb.9.cache
itemData.mk4
rmf.3.cache
tagstatus.dat
thumb.5(1).cache (has not been modified since transfer to new computer)
thumb.5.cache
tn.4.cache (has not been modified since transfer to new computer)
watch.2.cache
I've gotten some other replies that sound like I'll probably have to manually recreate and attach the tags. I've got over 6000 pics, so I'll appreciate any help you might have.

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