How to keep star ratings between catalogs?

I'm sure this has been addressed, but can't seem to find it. My issue is simple: I have rated keeper images in one catalog, and I want to bring them into another catalog with those star ratings intact. I have saved metadata to the file, and I have "write xmp to file" checked. I'm dealing with RAW and jpegs, LR 4.2 OSX 10.7.5  What's the solution?

The easiest solution is to use one catalog for all of your photos. Then there is no issue now, or in the future, of making sure both catalogs have the same star ratings (and many other benefits as well).
But if you must have multiple catalogs, you can transfer the start ratings like this: select the desired photos in one catalog, then File->Export as Catalog, then go to the 2nd catalog and File->Import from Catalog. This makes sure that the star ratings match at the instant you do it. Future changes to star ratings would require you to repeat the process, as often as necessary, as you cannot keep these two catalogs in sync any other way. Hence the suggestion in the first paragraph

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