Bridge to Lightroom Conversion

I have been using bridge and recently bought Lightroom, I am confused about a couple of things:
1. Bridge is set up to auto import the RAW images when it sees the camera, how to I switch it off and set up LR to do the job and leave the files as raw , adobe 1998, 16 bit.
2. The Raw files that I have already imported into Bridge have generated a sidecard xml, how will LR room handle this when I import those files.
Thx

Anthony-
First, in your LR Preferences (Edit>Preferences>Import), check the Show import dialog preference.
Then, when you plug in a camera/card, you should have a choice of what app to use to import, and a choice to use that app by default.
With RAW files you import from you hard drive with XMP files you select the files after importing them and from LR's Library module choose Metadata/Read metadata from file.
Hope that helps!
Tony

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