Library Filter ('Metadata') defaults-change

In the 6+ years I have been using LR each and every day I have never once utilized any of the four default terms cooked-into the 'Metadata' Library Filter ('Date', 'Camera', 'Lens', 'Label').
Is there a way for me to set up new metadata search terms as defaults so I don't have to putz w/changing the same-old-same-old each and every time I open this filter?
thx.

Hmm, in my LR 5.2 Windows 7 64-bit, it remembers the most recent columns in the Library Filter Bar Metadata browser. If I do View > Show Filter Bar (\), then Library > Enable Filters (Ctrl+L), then click Metadata in the filter bar, I get the most recently used configuration of columns. The configuration is remembered across restarts of LR. I've never noticed the columns changing underneath me -- I wonder what's different about how we use LR or the configuration?
Regardless, the filter presets are stored in
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Filter Presets
(and somewhere analagous on Mac). You can edit them with a text editor. Be sure to save a backup copy.

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Regards
TD

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