Adding a keyword to a group of photos

I'm trying to add the same keyword to a selection of photos. I'll type the keyword in the keywording panel. It will only apply the keyword to the first and last photos in the selection. I'm using lightroom 2.2

I am in grid view, I discovered late last night that if I had double clicked on an image so it was the single big image (I guess that switched to loupe) and was selecting things that way I couldn't do the group keywording, but if they were are small then it worked. This is new behavior to me, i just upgraded to 2. In 1 it didn't matter about that. I was hoping that was a preference or something that could be changed.
The keyword set doesn't work either if I have

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etmarcr wrote:
I didn't think about..
Perhaps not the most intuitive, but that's how I do it..
Free tip: to assign to all, remove the '*' (asterisk).

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