Automatically add Creator metadata to Illustrator files?

I'm trying to figure out a way for Illustrator to grab the "Owner" information (what you see when you command+I the .ai in the Finder) and copy that into the Creator metadata field everytime the file is altered and saved.
Any ideas on how to do this? I'd like this process to be invisible, because there's no way I'll get all our designers to remember to enter in their name as Creator everytime they alter a file.
We just need to keep track of who touched which file last, and Version Cue just won't work with our workflow...
Laker's tickets? Headscratch? Land in Montana?
TIA!
Travis.

You can add stuff manually in the File>File Info
It might be possible to script this information into the File Info
All that info will come up in Acrobat under File>Document Properties.

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