Thanks for all your help I have finally been able to complete my project and by changing the extension on my vob files I was able to find all my data.
Now I have a new problem and wonder if you can help me understand…my current PC had Adobe Photoshop 10 pre loaded. I have just take a freeze frame from my movie and when I went to edit it found that Photoshop is no longer there…I assume what has happened that when I downloaded Premiere Elements 8 it overwrote Photoshop 10??