Sharing catalog among multiple xp user profiles?

I've recently upgraded from Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 to Elements 5.0 with integrated album. Here's my problem.

I have three separate user profiles on my XP computer, and I want to share the same catalog among them all. This was no problem with Album 2.0, however in Elements 5.0 I can't make it work. From each user account I've opened the program, selected "Preferences" and pointed it to the same "my catalog" file and photo directory locations, but it only works from the account from which I installed the Elements package.

Elements seems to be fully available and functional from the other user accounts, but selecting "organize" either gives me the metadata without access to the pictures themselves, or tells me the catalog was created with an earlier version of Album and needs to be converted. In the latter condition, if I allow it to convert it tries for a while then returns an error.

What am I doing wrong here? Any assistance greatly appreciated. All the best.

Dave

Not real sure why Elements is choking on this. In theory, it shouldn't be a problem.

Maybe its Windows that has the problem rather than Elements. Try putting your Cat file and the photo directory inside windows "shared documents" folder and see what happens.