What Does "The importer reported a genetic error" mean?

I am attempting to import a "Slide Show" from Organizer into Premiere Elements and I get this error message.
No hint as to what the problem is.

Photoshop Elements 11 with Organizer developed Slide Show
Premier Elements 11
Running Under MS Windows 7 Professional
Intel i7-2920XM 2.50GHz
Quadro 2000 GPU with 135MHz Clock
Elements Organizer 11 content is now good.  Repair and Optimize both run and complete.  No missing files and no missing icons.
Catalog is on my 500GB hard drive that has nearly 180 GB free.
Output of the Elements Organizer 11 Slideshow Editor is to Premiere Elements Editor
The Pixel dimensions of the photos vary all over the place.  However, the same slide show was previously handled by the Premier Elements Editor. 
That was at 720 but I want to take it to HD and output to Blu-Ray
Content is Photos, Music, Graphics and Captions.  Duration for the segment I tried to input was about 15 minutes.  No video clips.
Yes, I manually set the project preset for Premiere Elements before I gave the Output command in the Elements Organizer Slideshow Editor?
I took the highest setting possible.  HD at 60 fps.
But, letting Organizer launch of the Premier Editor at my default 1080i 29.97 frames/second results in the same error..

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