Bridge keywords and organization.

Hello, everyone.
I am experiencing some issues with keywords in Bridge and thought I would post a question here in hope someone would be able to help.
FIRST QUESTION:
After creating a keyword catalog in Bridge with a certain hierarchical structure I have decided to make some changes and have found it difficult to do it. Let me illustrate. I had originally created two among many categories that I labeled "Cities" and "Airports". Under both I created the keyword "Miami". After I had assigned the keyword "Miami" under the category "Airport" to some photos I decided it would be best to change the name to "MIA Miami International Airport". I created another keyword labeled "MIA Miami International Airport" under the category "Airports" and tried to delete the entry for "Miami". At first it seems to go way but as soon as I move to another photo the delete keyword "Miami" reappears in under the category but this time it appears italicized.
I also tried to uncheck its box but as I do it another entry of the same name ("Miami") under the category "Cities" is also removed from the list of keywords applied to the image. It seem Bridge can't see the difference between "Miami" in "Cities" from "Miami" in "Airport". How can I resolve this issue ?
SECOND QUESTION:
After creating my hierarchical keyword structure I have decided to rearrange things in a way that seems more logical and intuitive. I tried to drag a keyword from one category to another but as I did it appeared under the other category italicized also. In this case the keyword was transferred to the same level of the hierarchical but I also need to change some arrangements so that some keywords will possibly move to lower levels in the hierarchy. How can this be done so that Bridge in a way that won't confuse Bridge or affect the keywords in my images ?
One thing I wish to add is that the option to apply parent keywords in Bridge's preferences isn't checked. I've opted to apply only the keywords I choose and whenever I feel a parent keyword should also be applied I can do it manually.
Any ideas of how these issues can be resolved ?
TIA,
Joe

I do not use hieracy so you might have to experiment.  I do know that if you try to delete a keyword, you have to first have find all instances of the keyword  and uncheck the box for each photo.  This can best be done with search. If you don't, when you vist another folder that has files using the keyword it will write it back into the keyword panel.
You might want to sit down with a pencil and paper and go through what you want to achieve.  It is easier to erase the paper than change the keyword structure.

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    I know I can work around this by simply batch renaming the sets of files that I would otherwise add this metadata to, and creating the file names manually before export, but that would add a fair amount of time into the process and eliminates me being able to use keywords in Bridge.  I work two jobs right now and anything I can do to my workflow to shave precious minutes off of it is huge to me.
    So I guess my questions are:
    1) Is it possible to get keywords and the description into my filenames (without spending more time than this process was designed to save)?
    2) If not, what's the point of having that metadata?
    3) Is this functionality available in a newer version of PS?
    I'm using Photoshop CS3 and the format my final JPG files need to have is: "[4 digit sequence number]_[Description]_[comma delimited keyword list].jpg"
    Thanks for reading, and hopefully helping. 

    Sorry about that, was too early in the morning when i posted that. No, you can't use Batch Rename to add keywords to files, i was thinking about metadata in general. The point of keywords is that you can search images for keywords and you can also use the Filter panel to show only images that contain certain keywords.
    If you want Bridge to have this functionality then i suggest that you make a feature request here: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish

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