Reinstalling catalogues from Elements 4

Hi, my PC motherboard recently died so I had to upgrade the whole lot. I did a fresh install of XP (as it wouldn't boot with new Motherboard,cpu,gpu etc) and reinstalled PSE4 (And a trial version of PSE7). I let both find my images (now on a different HD) to build my catalogue but obviously I dont have all my Tags and collections (albums?) that I had previously. I did manage to import some tags but I mostly have collections (Holiday 07 etc). I still have the original installation of PSE4 on my now spare drive - is there any way of copying over a config file of some kind to get my collections back? And will it work now that my photos are on a different drive? I have a few plugins as well but these are not so important - I can always download them again.
Thanks, Liam.

You have to find your catalog file from the old hard disk. The default name is My Catalog.psa. It may be in a hidden folder.
If you can find that, put it on your new computer's hard disk. For it to work, your photos have to be at the exact same location as they were on the old computer. In other words, the drive letter, folder location and file name must be the same. If that is the case, just double click on the My Catalog.psa file, and you should be up and running.
If the files are not in the exact same location as before, you need to move things around so now they are in the exact same location as before. (Alternatively, you could try the PSE command File->Reconnect, but I prefer just moving the files/folders back to where they were.) Once you have your catalog up and running, you could move the photos to wherever you want them, using PSE commands.

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