Broken publish service for Flickr

Hi,
I tried to publish a set of photos on Flickr when something went wrong in LR 4.1 (on Win 7-64). 3 shots were uploaded successfully when LR suddently claimed that: "Can't upload this collection. Could not connect to the Flickr web service. Please check your internet connection." My Interent connection is fine and I can browse Flickr normally. I can also go into the publish service and re-authenticate my Flickr-account successfully. But the problem persists. I can create a new publish service for Flickr and that one works fine.
So the settings for my first Flickr publish service seems to be broken somehow.
1. Does someone know how to fix the broken publish service?
2. Is there a way to move my shots in the broken publish service to the new one without breaking the link between the shot and the copy on Flickr?
Thanks,
Mike

It's a bug http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom_4_1_rc2_a_cr_or_lf_n_the_m iddle_of_a_caption_causes_failure_to_connect_to_flickr
You can vote to force adobe to resolv it.
Maybe yoy have a cariage return in caption.
Stéphane

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