GPS Exif metadata bug

Hello,
When I try to upload a Geotagged JPEG generated by Lightroom, GEOdata is lost (the same happens with picasa). The problem is not flickr but lightroom! You can check it following these steps:
1- Geotag a RAW file (I did with geosetter)
2- Import & convert to DNG (lightroom) and check GPS data is showed in metadata.
3- Export to JPEG and manually upload it to flickr.
Doing this way, GEOdata won't show up in flickr. But following these steps:
1- Import & convert to DNG.
2- Export to JPEG.
3- Geotag the JPEG file (I did with geosetter)
4- Manually upload it to flickr
Works great!
In this link www.flickr.com/photos/dpecos/3054904739/ are show both GPS metada: the top one is the one that works and the bottom the one exported directly from lightroom. As you can see there are less GPS Exif headers.
Thank you!

I get more locality information (city, state, etc) if I geotag a JPG compared to a RAW but both have coordinate information embedded in them and show up on my map. I use LR's Flickr upload plugin for the RAWs so maybe that's a difference. I always geotag both the CR2 and the XMP and I never convert to DNG, so maybe that's the difference.
Can you confirm that when you geotag before importing into LR (the situation that doesn't seem to work for you) that clicking on the GPS -> in the metadata section shows the correct location on the map from w/in LR?
Besides the extra tags on the top EXIF dump that really don't seem important, I see a couple differences between the information:
1) The longitude on the top/working EXIF is relative to W while the longitude on the bottom/non-working EXIF is relative to E. And they appear to be coordinates to totally different parts of the world. Can you confirm where each is, approximately, at least country and nearest city?
2) The longitude on the top/working EXIF seems to have all three parts in D M S format, while the bottom/non-working EXIF seems to have D M.MMM with 0/0 (infinity) for the third, presumably unused portion of the coordinate.
Not sure if either thing contributes to the problem.

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CanonExposureMode
int16s
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22
LensType
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LongFocal
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24
ShortFocal
int16u
25
FocalUnits
int16s
26
MaxAperture
int16s
27
MinAperture
int16s
28
FlashActivity
int16s
29
FlashBits
int16s
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Bit 2 = A-TTL
Bit 3 = E-TTL
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Bit 11 = FP sync used
Bit 13 = Built-in
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32
FocusContinuous
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1 = Continuous
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33
AESetting
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3 = AE Lock + Exposure Comp.
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34
ImageStabilization
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1 = On
2 = On, Shot Only
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35
DisplayAperture
int16s
36
ZoomSourceWidth
int16s
37
ZoomTargetWidth
int16s
39
SpotMeteringMode
int16s
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40
PhotoEffect
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2 = Neutral
3 = Smooth
4 = Sepia
5 = B&W
6 = Custom
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41
ManualFlashOutput
int16s
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0x500 = Full
0x502 = Medium
0x504 = Low
0x7fff = n/a
42
ColorTone
int16s
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46
SRAWQuality
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