Upgrade to PSE 10- Importing catalogue/tags from PSE4

I want to upgrade from Photoshop Elements 4 to Elements 10. Will Photoshop Elements 10 automatically import my photo catalogue from Elements 4 including all the tags? If not can this be done manually?

Sorry for delay, got bogged down trying to get the laptop restore to work which was a waste of time because it's hard disc was too small !
As suggested by dj the restore from my PSE4 backup appeared to work and on completion it went into an automatic conversion and also said it had converted successfully. However it gave the message :-
"The catalog named My Catalog.psa has been converted for use with this version of Elements Organizer and the original catalog has been renamed to "d:\xxxxx\My Pictures\My Catalog.psa 1"
On closing this message window I get thumbnails created for a catalog shown as My Catalog 1, which the above message implies is is the unconverted catalog ?
If I open My Catalog it says "No items have been imported to this catalog" !?
So is something wrong or is he conversion message misleading ?
I have an additional problem in that the drive letter on my new PC is different to the original was single drive, new has 2 drives). So for the restore I specified "New Location", pointed at the My Pictures folder under which I wanted the photos. I also requested "Preserve original file structure". This seems to result in the full path from the original PC including "Documents and Settings\User\My Pictures\...." etc beneath the My Pictures which is very cumbersome ! I did try without the "Preserve original ..." but while this didn't create the unwanted additional folder levels it also removed the required folder structure within My Pictures (not surprising really I suppose !).
Is there a "easy" way of moving the folder structure around or would it have to be done for each tagged level ?
Think we're making progress though !

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Please understand that these two products are actually quite different.
Photoshop Album is similar to Photshop Album SE, but as you might imagine
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