Adding numerous keywords to an image

My first post here, so hopefully someone can help..
I am trying to keyword images in Elements 3. I have been going into the Elements 3 organiser, creating a tag, giving it an appropriate name and adding keywords in the "notes" box. Then dragging the tag onto the image..
When I then check the "file info" option in the editor the only keywords listed are the ones in the tag name, the note entries are ignored. Obviously the notes box is not where you put keyword so thats fine, but my question is then where do you put the actual keywords? You can't put many words into the tag name field, so that can't be the answer..
I would like to keyword an image with say 100 words. In the editor the "file info" box for keywords is greyed out and instructs you to use the file browser tags option.. Am I missing something obvious here?
I am using Win XP, 2.4GHz celeron, 1.5Gb Ram.
Thanks for reading this..
Craig

> So an individual tag for each individual keyword is what you are suggesting is necessary in Elements?
Yes.
> Maybe Photoshop CS has this functionality?
I believe that Bridge - part of CS - does do exactly that.
This would be logical, as CS is the "pros" tool and this is very much in a professional photographer's area of interest.
If you don't want to spend that kind of money, you should look around for other tools to just add keywords. There are lots of possibilities - many of them free. I use Pixvue for other purposes, but I think it can do that.
Just a word of caution: there are several ways to add keywords to image metadata; make sure you're doing what the image stock library expects.

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Well, I'm finally paying the price for bad keyword management and I'm trying to clean up my nightmare of a system now but running into trouble.
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Message was edited by: strathglass

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