Aperture ignores edits to Autofill - sticky copyright date

Question

Last year, I used Aperture 3 to add a 2010 copyright notice to my images. This field autofilled when the import window was opened, which was nice - I didn't have to type in the copyright every time. I've been trying to change the copyright to 2011, of course. No matter what I do, it always autofills with the 2010 copyright. I now have to edit the date for every import, which is especially annoying because Aperture crashes EVERY fifth shot or so when I shoot tethered (I continue to harangue Apple about this-grrrr) so I'm constantly importing.
I tried using Edit Autofill List, and did successfully remove the 2010 copyright text from there, or so I thought, but Aperture still autofills with 2010. I smell a trip to the preference trash heap in my future...is there a way to trash only some preferences? I don't want to lose my precious keyword groups and button presets, which took a long time to set up. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Solved!
For the benefit of any other confused souls out there, the Import window's field called Copyright Notice is NOT autofilling, which makes complete sense now that I think about it. This field populates from whatever you type into the field called "Copyright" in the metadata presets you set up specifically for import, as Kirby pointed out. My mistake was forgetting that these import presets act differently from the custom metadata views you can set up for your Metadata inspector (panel on the left), which do Autofill. The import presets input "hard" information that you type in to suit your needs. Typing in the correct copyright into the Metadata Presets/Edit/IPTC Status/Copyright field solved my problem. Yea!
So the Edit Autofill List function does allow you to edit the IPTC copyright field among many others, but it will have no effect on import metadata. Editing Autofill entries could be helpful if you have an imported photo with no copyright and you want to type one in. Aperture will autofill for you, but if you have copyrights from more than one year, it might autofill the wrong one. So Aperture lets you remove any autofill data you don't want. Now I understand!
One little mistake Apple could correct is that the copyright field names are inconsistent. The import panel's IPTC field name is "Copyright Notice" - the pesky one that kept showing me last year's copyright. When you edit or make new Import metadata presets, they call this same field "Copyright" - the editing of which solved my problem. Which isn't a big deal, but in trying to correct my problem with Edit Autofill List, the IPTC field is called "Copyright Notice," same name as my problem field. Same inconsistency with metadata custom views, as well. The way I learned it, distinct field name means distinct field. But that doesn't seem to be the case here. Confusing, no?
Thanks to Kirby for solving my problem - I send you a virtual chocolate chip cookie. Make that a dozen if you can solve my tethered crashing problem