IPhoto 09 - exporting metadata question

I'm using iPhoto 09 as one of several organizational tools for my doctoral dissertation. I have thousands of research photos organized nicely in iPhoto. Over the last year I have added text to the "Description" field for many photos. What I would like to be able to do is to export these photos so that either a.) the description data is automatically entered into the comment field in the "get info" window so that they're searchable with Spotlight, or b.) to export the pictures with the "description" data appended in a way so that I can delete them from iPhoto, but if I re-import them in the future they will still have the "description" data. Is this at all possible?
Once I'm finished with this project, I plan to archive all the photos and delete them from iPhoto since they take up about 20GB of HD space, but I want to be able to revisit them in the future without having to re-catalog them all.

What I would like to be able to do is to export these photos so that either a.) the description data is automatically entered into the comment field in the "get info" window so that they're searchable with Spotlight,
iPhoto won't do this but you may find an AppleScript or Automator action to do this for you.
b.) to export the pictures with the "description" data appended in a way so that I can delete them from iPhoto, but if I re-import them in the future they will still have the "description" data. Is this at all possible?
Export the pics from iPhoto using the File -> Export command. Check the box to write the Titles and Keywords to the file and - tho' not mentioned explicitly - the descriptions will be also.
Once I'm finished with this project, I plan to archive all the photos and delete them from iPhoto since they take up about 20GB of HD space, but I want to be able to revisit them in the future without having to re-catalog them all.
Why not move the Library off to an external disk, keep them catalogued and create a second library for your further use?
Regards
TD

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