Tagging and Watch folders on a HP Media Smart Server

I have a HP Media Server and have moved all my photos/videos to this server so that all three of my PC's may access them easily. I have a few questions that maybe someone can help with.
1. My wife and I use separate PC's and have PSE 7 on them. Apparently when we tag the photo's on the server, the tags are relative to the PC's that we tagged them from (multiple instances) and I would like to know how to merge them so that all PC's accessing the server media can see the Tags regardless of what PC generated them. Also how to prevent this from occurring in the future.
2. This may not be the appropriate Forum to ask the question, but you never know...My wife and I have made a habit of saving media to our home server. This really cuts down on having duplicate file's on multiple PC's. The problem that we are having is that when I try to add the media folders on the server to the "Watch Folder" list, Elements returns an access denied error. Now I know that this is almost certianly an issue with the Windows Home Server OS, but I was wondering if anyone may have experienced this before and has a solution.
Thanks for any help,
Brad

Brad,
While it is possible to store your PSE catalog and photos on a server and share that catalog among several computers, setting it up is tricky and you may not be satisfied with the performance of PSE:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Storing_the_catalog
Currently, it sounds like you're storing your photos on the server but each computer has its own PSE catalog file, which is why tagging a photo from one computer won't show up on another (the tags are stored in teh catalog file).
For watching a network folder, see this FAQ:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Watching_Network_Folder s

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