Bridge won't write metadata; Photoshop will

I have some TIFFs created from scans. Here's the problem I'm seeing.
When opening the image in PS CS5 I often get a message saying This file contains file info data which cannot be read and which has been ignored.
First, I try to change some metadata in Bridge and save the image. Sometimes this solves the problem. Often, though, I get a message saying There was an error writing metadata to "filename".
Next, I open the image in PS simply clicking OK on the error message above. I open File Info, change some metadata and save the image. So far this has always solved the problem thus far.
The source of hte problem will likely not be easy to discover since the error message provides no useful information and since it is happening frequently, but not universally. At first I thought it was related to specific fields, but further testing seems to indicate it is not. Then I thought since another running application gave me a low storage message, it might be related to that. That does not seem to be the case either.
However, even if I don't find the root cause, it would be helpful if Bridge would simply rewrite the metadata to fix the problem rather than having to go into PS.
Any thoughts?
Dale

From
what you are saying the TIFF's are corrupt somehow. Open them in PS
and then save with another name and see it you can then write metadata.
For whatever reason Bridge may be more sensitive to the error than PS.
Can you change the scan to another format to eliminate the problem?
Granted the metadata is somehow corrupt. However opening them in PS and then saving them with the same name solves the problem, so it must rebuild the corrupt metadata fields.
I've scanned several hundred TIFFs and only had the problems on a few files. The only archival formats Nikon Scan 4 gives me are TIFF and nef and if I used nef ACR won't recognize the colorspace.
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