Custom metadata dropdown lists

My company recently purchased Lightroom to catalog our enormous collection of photographs. We need a way to attach industry specific metadata to our photos in order to retrieve them easier and faster. I have found a couple of free plugins but I haven’t quite found a way to create drop down lists that our users can use to select the correct terminology. My fear is that if we leave it as a text field, a user may use different terminology or misspell something, making it impossible to create a comprehensive Smart Collection. Is what we are looking for even possible with Lightroom? If so, can anyone possibly point me in the direction of someone who could build a custom plug-in for us? Or at least provide me with some training?

Here is a partial list of providers for custom LR plug-ins:
http://thepluginsite.com/resources/commercial_lightroom.htm
BTW, you will get a lot more help (and useful links and suggestions) if you post your question to the general Lightroom discussion forum rather than in this Adobe Labs forum.

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