Any way to change/replace EXIF data like the original date of photo?

I'm importing into Lightroom several thousand photos I took with my first digital camera, back in 2000-2004. It's all gone very smoothly. But here's my problem:
In my old workflow, photos I spent time editing wound up as TIF files, and whatever program I used to edit them stripped out the EXIF information from them. As a result, for example, a photo which was actually taken on March 4, 2001 will have EXIF information showing it was taken on March 10, 2001, the date on which I edited it and made the TIF. All of the other EXIF data is stripped as well, the exposure data, lens information, ISO, whether the flash fired, etc. The TIF file basically seems to have no EXIF data other than the file size and my name.
I can live without the other info, really, but the changing of the information about the original date/time means that the TIF file doesn't sort next to the original file in Lightroom, which I'd like it to do. There's not thousands of photos for which I have TIFs, just a few hundred at most.
Is there any way, with a plug-in or some external program, to copy the EXIF information from the original program and insert it into the TIF file?

I'd suggest just using ExifTool.
The command is:
     exiftool -tagsFromFile {SRCFILE} {DESTFILE}
So, if you have a tif sans exif named my.tif, and an original jpg with exif named my.jpg, it would be:
     exiftool -tagsFromFile my.jpg my.tif
There may be a batch-y way to do this with exiftool, or you could make your own batch file to do this in bulk...
Main link: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
Examples: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/exiftool_pod.html#copying_examples
PS - To sync changes from files into catalog, use 'Read Metadata from File' function on Library Metadata menu.
Rob

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