Problem deleting multiple keywords in lightroom 5

I am importing about 20,000 pictures from Flickr. they are all creative commons, and the end result will be the use of approximately 4000 of these in an online sign language dictionary.
I use Bulkr to import them and this process imports the tags as well as other information such as the photographers name and url. Many of these photos arrive with hundreds of tags, so that the total number of tags might be 20000 or more. I need to assign my own tags and delete all the tags that the photo arrived with. I use the lightroom batch delete to do this (the little minus sign at the top of the keyword list). i select a keyword, hold down the shift key and scroll down. the problem is that i cannot just scroll down to the bottom of the list. There appear to be unpredictable keywords that cause the shift-select process not to work. if i scroll back up and then carefully scroll part of the way back down, then there will be a point at which shift-select stops working and above that it works.
The end result of this is that it takes numerous shift-select-scroll down-select to delete everything so that what should take maybe 2 minutes takes 20 minutes or more.
The problem may be related to foreign language keywords especially chinese characters, but even what looks like a perfectly ordinary keyword can stop it. Two recent examples: travellers cheque and Київ. In all cases, the words can be deleted when i click directly on them. you just cant shift-select THROUGH them.
A separate annoyance that i will just grumble about is that i was forced to put these pictures in a separate catalog because there is always the risk that i could manage to delete my own keywords while batch-deleting everyone elses, and there is no simple way that i know of to undo this. with the separate catalog at least i wont delete all the keywords for my own pictures.

With respect to problems deleting multiple keywords: On Windows, since at least version 3, LR has had basic bugs when you have more than about 1600 keywords showing. (Hard to believe it isn't fixed by now.) A simple workaround for you situation is to filter the keywords one letter at a time and then select the subset of keywords that are showing -- e.g. filter all keywords with the letter "t", then all keywords with the letter "b", etc.
With respect to not getting the keywords into your catalog in the first place: You can define a Metadata Preset that will clear the keywords on import:

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Hi, gang. I've been playing around with Lightroom and Bridge and I've realized that I got very deep into adding keywords in Lightroom but that I would much rather add them in Bridge, then import them into Lightroom. The problem is that I now have amassed a huge number of keywords that migrate into Bridge and that are time-consuming to change. I'd rather just delete every keyword in Lightroom at once, then re-create them in Bridge, and THEN import them into Lightroom.
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OK, once again. I am asking the same question many others have asked. I followed the directions from my search results about deleting multiple keywords at one time. I accidently placed a keyword on 1,000 images.
I have tried selecting them all, going to the bottom of the window and typing in the keyword, hit shift and enter, and that does NOT work.
Anyone, ANYONE found a solution yet? I mean, come on. it is a simple mistake, and something that should be written into the program.
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Below the window that says "Add Keyword" you have the Keyword Button sets. If that keyword you are trying to remove is not in one of them, go to the last option, Edit Buttons, and add that keyword to one of the sets.
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Lightroom has suddenly started behaving oddly with regard to keywords and I can't seem to find reference to it anywhere, even if it is "switch" that I have accidentally turned on.
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