Transferring work between computers

My old laptop that had Photoshop elements (version 8) died and I re-installed the software on my new laptop.
How do I bring all the work I did on my old laptop onto my new laptop (photo organization, ratings, slideshows)?
I can't use the old laptop, but I have the old hard drive connected to my new laptop as an external drive. So I have access to all the files.
I talked with Adobe help who says there is no way to do this, but I can't really believe it. This information must be stored in some files on the old hard drive.
Since I didn't really understanding the organizer and catalogs, I did not create a catalog backup within the software.
Ideas I have had:
1.  find the files that store the organziational data and copy to right places on the new computer
2.  Figure a way to install version 8  on the new computer so that it points to the external drive. Just installing may overwrite all the data though, so I would want to know how to back up the files with the data first.
Anybody know how to do this?
Thanks!

onaic wrote:
Excellent!  Yes this works. 
2 more questions
1.  Organizer is viewing and referring to the external drive (d:) which makes sense now that I think about it.  Is there a way to get globally view on the c drive (local drive)?  What I mean here, is that all the pictures on the c and d drives are exactly the same and organized exactly the same.  So if I could globally replace the path from d:\dir1\dir2\pict1 to c:\dir1\dir2\pict1  (for example), the ratings references, etc. should all work.  Seems like this is possible if PSE catalogs the picts by directory and name but not if it uses an internal ID.
     If this helps in your answer, I was reading that the catalog.pse8db is a SQLite database?  I do know SQL and programming though not Adobe and how to use SQLite.  If I already have the tools and it is not too complicated, I bet I could figure out how to manipulate this.  Reason I mention this is I could imagine the solution being a simple global change in a database.
2.  Is the way to avoid this in the future to do a catalog backup to a separate directory?
Thanks very much for your help!
From version 6 which adopted the sqlite database, the drive is managed in a separate table from the full path one. Every time a new drive is recognized by Windows, a new record is created in this table. The unique id is assigned by the database and the serial number, drive letter and description are stored as separate fields in the records of that table. The media table includes separate fields for the full path and the drive. In your case, every drive internal id is present and correct, but the description is false for the letter drive. When the organizer tries to recombine the letter with the full path and does not find, it uses the drive serial number... at least that's how I see it. So in your case, you would have to correct only a single record in the drive table to have a clean database. Generally a change like yours is not seen by the user if you stay with the same PSE version but it may hinder a conversion. Of course you can look at the database structure and make changes with sqlite tools. Simple changes like the letter id do not require sql queries with those tools.
You are right, the proper way to move all your media files from one drive or folder to another one is the backup and restore process from within the organizer. The restore recreates a clean database on the basis of your choice : same location as before, or new location anywhere.
Edit : you'll find free sqlite tools on the Web, my favourite is 'sqlite manager' an add-on for Firefox.

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