Can't write keywords to photos

I have both PSE 9 and 10 on my iMac running Mountain Lion.  In both versions, when I try to "Write Keyword Tags  and Properties Info to Photos," I instantly get a message saying, "An error occurred while reading files or writing files to disc.  The disc may be full or there my be a problem with the source media.  The disc is NOT full.  I tried deleting .plists for the organizer and removing saved application states (whatever that means)  I repaired permissions 3 times.  It told me that there was one repair it could not (or would not) make.  "Warning SUID System/Library/Core Services/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ADRAgent has been modified and will not be repaired."  This means nothing to me, as I don't speak tech.  It might have something to do with the fact that I recently had to replace my hard drive (under a year old).  Anyway, I thought I would include that info in case it possibly had anything to do with my PSE problem. 
For comparison, I have the same setup on my MacBook Pro (PSE Versions 9 and 10 with Mountain Lion).  I have no problem with the write Keyword Tags, etc. on that machine.

Photos are located on Mac hard drive, under a huge hierarchy of folders (built from several iterations of  Elements).  But I have 2 TB of HD space, and it is not at all full.  As I said, I am not having this problem on my MBP, but I want to work on the big screen of my iMac.

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