Checkboxes in custom panels/boolean XMP properties

I have a large and expanding collection of photos, the majority of which are either (a) gig photos or (b) photos of railway signalling. The latter include a 'legacy' collection of some 2,000 35mm slides which I am slowly but steadily digitising using a film scanner. I make a lot of use of Adobe Photoshop CS2.
To assist in cataloguing my collections, I have created two custom XMP metadata panels, one for the gig photos and the other for the railway ones. I have installed both of these in the appropriate directory on my PC and they work very well, with the exception of the one small issue described below. Can anyone help me with that?
As I built up my railway slide collection, I adopted a system of numbering and categorising the slides which I have now incorporated into my custom panel and its underlying XMP extension schema. One of the properties within my system is a boolean setting, so I incorporated this as a check_box control within the custom panel for the railway photos.
What I am now finding, however, is that whenever I update the metadata of
any image on my PC, the default value of false is inserted for this property regardless of whether or not I have set any of the other properties defined in the custom railway photo metadata panel. I would prefer for this property to remain unset unless I specifically set it via the dialogue box. Is there anything I can do to achieve this?
For reference, the check box definition from my railway photo custom panel is:
check_box(name: '$$$/RailwayPhotos/item=Substitution ',
hotizontal: align_right, xmp_ns_prefix: 'RailPhoto',
xmp_namespace: 'http://www.roscalen.com/RailwayPhotos/1.0/',
xmp_path: 'substituted');
TIA
Adie

OK, this is what I have done.
The swf file is named generic.swf
I made a text doc and put this path in the text
C:\Users\Chyron\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\XMP\Custom File Info Panels\4.0\panels\Athletes (US)\bin\
then saved it and renamed the .txt to .cfg and then created folders like you said above because they did not exist.
and put the file there.
C:\Users\chyron\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\#Security\FlashPlayerTrust
and still does not work

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P10, description of 'cat_container_edit_text' widget type: surely this should also list custom variable 'container_type', which is needed to specify whether the metadata array is a bag, seq or whatever.
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Regards
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Joe, here is the Adobe link that I could not find yesterday when I put up the link to the (suspect) archive site:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/xmp/sdk/topic_cust_file_info_panels.html
I have not looked into these panels for years and I am not sure what has changed in CS4.
Yes, the free software mentioned previously was limited in the amount of fields, however correct me if I am wrong - the output was just XMP text data and one could simply open it in a text editor and copy/paste/edit extra fields and resave, as the limitation was with the GUI frontend and not with XMP.
Obviously the computer reading the file needs the custom info panel installed to see the panel in it's full glory, otherwise the metadata is "hidden" away in one of the other metadata listings (I can't remember where). I also had problems picking up the custom metadata when searching via catalogue applications that could read other common metadata such as IPTC.
It was a bit of a mixed bag if I recall, showing promise however it was not really ready for the average user to use.
Anyway, it sounds as if my very limited knowlege on this area is being exhausted...
While on the topic, some other links that may help:
http://www.idealliance.org/industry_resources/branding_media_and_color/digital_image_submi ssion_criteria/metadata_fields
http://www.idealliance.org/industry_resources/branding_media_and_color/digital_image_submi ssion_criteria/resource_center/xmp_custom_panel
http://www.disc-info.org/resources/xmp.zip (perhaps you look at the source code for ideas)
http://www.iptc.org/IPTC4XMP/
http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/forum.html
http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/mtworkaround.html
http://metadatamanifesto.blogspot.com/
iView Media Pro software also had a custom panel for Photoshop that may also give you ideas.
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Hi Everyone
My name is Daté.
I'm working in the fashion industry as a designer and Design consultant to help fashion brands improving the design workflow by using Adobe softwares and especially Illustrator.
I'm not a developper, but i'm very interested about the possibility to introduce xmp technology to provide more DAM workflows in the fashion industry.
Fashion designers produce a lot of graphical objects in illustrator or Photoshop. Unfortunately they are faced to a big challenge which is about how to manage, search, classify and get this files faster. Of course PDM system or PLM system are used in the Fashion industry to manage data, but for many companies, implemanting this kind of database is very complex.
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Use indesign and the xml file to generate automatically catalogues or technical sheets based on xmp values
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Hi Sunil,
After many trial, i realize the problem was not coming from the trust file, but from the way i have created the custom panel.
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A plugin or a software capable to extract the XMP from llustrator files to generate XML workflows in Indesign to create catalogues
A plugin to allow indesign to get custom XMP in live caption
A plugin to allow Bridge to get custom XMP in the Outputmode to make pdf or web galeries from a smart collection
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