Upgrade to Win7 & PSE-9; Can't Reconnect Photos in Catalog

Just bought a new computer, which upgraded me from XP to Win 7, and at the same time I upgraded to Photoshop Elements 9. I restored my Catalog backup, but found a majority of my photos had become disconnected due to a change in the folder hierarchy from XP to Win 7. Many of my photos when I was using XP were in C:\documents and settings\..., but in Windows 7 there is no documents and settings folder under C:, and Windows won't even let me create a folder with that name so as to move the photos back into it. So now all my photos are in C:\Users\My Pictures\... and PSE can't seem to find them. I have to browse on each one to manually reconnect it. Very tedious and no way that is going to work for nearly 10,000 photos in my catalog.
What's worse, the program freezes after I perform a half-dozen or so reconnects, and I have to do a force-quit. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the program, and also the suggestion on this Adobe tech note (http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/400/kb400848.html) and neither seems to abate the freezing issue. I've also tried both restore options (restore to same location and restore to new location/preserve folder layout) and the folder hierarchy is still messed up either way. Any suggestions?

I suggest that you refer to this technote for general info about the catalog and upgrading
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/859/cpsid_85996.html
Common catalog issues when you upgrade | Elements 6, 7, 8, or 9 Organizer
and then that you look at the specific problem discussed in
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404560.html
Can't edit, open, reconnect photos or media | Incorrect drive letter | Elements 6, 7, 8 or 9 Organizer | Windows
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