Best (safest) way to label photos?

Hi,
I have an iMac running OS X 10.6.8.
When my previous iMac G5 started to conk out, it disconnected my photo library from iPhoto; when the library was reconnected with iPhoto, all the photo labelling I had one in iPhoto was lost (several thousand photos). Also prior to that, I when I attempted to back up my photos on DVDs (problematic enough in itself with the iMac G5 not accepting the DVDS most of the time), the labelling I'd done in iPhoto did not come across to the back up. (I guess I realize now that I was not really labelling the file in iPhoto; I was probalby only labelling a display of the file?)
Anyway, to prevent this happening again with this computer, what is the recommended way of labelling photos? On the hard drive (Finder)? If so, what is the best way of doing this? I need to see the photo to be apply the right label to it.
Thanks in advance for any help.
reluctantuser

I restored them to iPhoto as per advice from Apple Support, however none of the titles, description, keywords, etc. came along with them.
How did you restore them?
As it is right now, with +12000 photos in iPhoto on this new machine, searching on the title doesn't work very well. It, sometimes, eventually, gets me to the search phrase, but it seems it's past its capacity.
How are you searching?
So, are you saying that if I export batches of photos out of iPhoto to the hard drive, the titles, etc. in iPhoto will write to the files?
It will if you tell it to. Note the options in the Export dialogue.
The point in all of this - "I copied files to disk, copied them back" is all about how you did these things. What disk? Did you write the metadata to the files? If not, well then... If so, was it a DVD? and so on

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