Upgrading from PSE5 to PSE9 and Organizing Photos - Help Pls.

Hi everyone,
I've finally got an upgrade to Photoshop Elements - I'm currently using 5.0 and I was given version 9.0 for Christmas... so excited!
I wanted to see if anyone has any advice for upgrading - in some ways, I want to start over from scratch and re-import all of my photos to the organizer. Some photos are duplicated, and some are not showing up at all even though I know they're on the HD and also in the organizer files, but they don't show up in the actual photo thumbnails - very confusing.
I also don't like the chaos I used for tags when I first started taking and editing photos - so I'd like to restart that as well.
Has anyone else recently upgraded Photoshop Elements? Can you start clean, or does it import all of the tags and issues from the previous version you used?
Also - does anyone have any advice for how to actually organize the photos? I keep them on my HD, but I don't know if the volume of photos can or will cause problems. I also back up to an external HD for safekeeping. Any advice on how to store and organize photos would be very much appreciated.
Thanks!

Hi Julie
When you upgrade to PSE9 the program will automatically offer you the choice of upgrading an earlier catalog.
Simply reject this and you can then start over and import photos and tag them as you like.

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