Import from Expression Media

I have a big library of pictures which I managed in Expression Media. Each picture goes through different stages like location tagged, people tagged, etc. Each such stage is represented by a particular color. Lightroom seems to have something similar. I imported some pictures for testing but I am missing:
1) The 'stage' tags I mentioned above
2) The location information (country, state, city, etc)
3) Other location information (home, park, etc)
4) List of people in the picture
Obviously, I don't want to do all this again as it was a LOT of work. So somehow I must be able to import the tags into Lightroom 3. Sync Metadata did not do anything. Any input is appreciated.

1) The 'stage' tags I mentioned above
I don't exactly know what that means, but I guess you might use Labels for it. Or Smart collections, with little creativity: http://blog.ericscouten.com/2008/08/lightroom-2-technique-smart-collections-and-worklists/
2) The location information (country, state, city, etc)
That would probably be IPTC location data.
3) Other location information (home, park, etc)
Maybe keywords?
4) List of people in the picture
Keywords I'd guess...
Sorry cannot help you with your problem, but I got one succestion: Manage old images with Expression Media and new ones with Lr. As need rises, migrate old images to Lr.
I'm not EM user, but I somehow guess that roots of your problem might lie there instead of Lr. Does EM write metadata to files? If not, then there is probably problem with migrating to Lr.
I also succest that you get Peter Kroghs The DAM book, which afaik also covers migrating from one DAM to another. Also, the DAM forum (http://thedambook.com/smf/index.php) might offer you some solutions, at least there are some experienced EM users, who might be able to help you on that side.
Good luck.

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I've been using Microsoft products in general for years, and in the context of what I'm asking here, the Expression suite since Version 1. Expression Design doesn't come anywhere near Photoshop CS5, which I've just bought, but as well as an editing program I need a decent asset management product. At the moment I use Expression Media mainly to catalog my photographs, but also use the HTML export function to create quick slide shows for the web. Microsoft has not updated Media since version 2 (not that that is a problem in itself) but has also sold it to Phase One, who haven't yet said what they will do with it.
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Lightroom is first and foremost a media manager.
I suspect many would have reservations about this. Lightroom is a very limited media asset manager. I do not think this is a design goal for the application. It is designed to manage raw files from supported cameras and some other files - jpg, psd and tiff - and track videos taken with the camera - that's about it.
Many would argue most of the development energy has gone into the dev module.
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Hi Jaba
Thnx for reply.
Now i would answer the questions asked by you and try to clear you confusion,
Yes, Express Media Player was previously installed on my machine, and I have used it, it was perfectly working.
About installation of Media Player, The whole story is that, firstly i wasnt known about how to make a Toshiba express media player recovery cd through windows, so downloaded an ISO of the media player from a forum and install media player by first deleting partitions.
After that I can again installed xp through recovery dvd and choose the option "out of box" state and then selected "install without changing partitions"
After a successfull recovery, I shutdown my pc and pressed the media player button, the media player logo appeared for 5 seconds and then my laptop shutsdown, this is happening all the time when i start my laptop by the Express media player button.
After this I read somewhere how to create a backup recovery cd for Express media player, So i run the recovery disk creater and made a backup of Toshiba Express media player.
After doing the above procedure I again formated my hard drive through recovery dvd and selecting the option "Delete partitions and overwrite sectors". When this was finished, i booted my laptop with the newly made recovery cd for express player, after selecting English as my language, This it what said:
"Installation Error" An error occured due to wrong system ID or unsufficient space on hard drive, press escape to quit.
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