IPhoto 11 deleting some keywords

Hi all,
Yesterday I started trying to add keywords to my photos in iPhoto. It went well for about 100 photos, then started getting a bit wonky.
If I added keywords a, b, c, d to a photo and then clicked outside the keyword box (say, to add location data, which was not doing well with batch editing), 2 of the keywords would just disappear. It was the same two keywords for every photo. I'd have to go back and add them again and then they'd stay.
Any idea what's going on there?

I applied the keywords (2 of them twice to make them save) to a photo.
I exported it to my download folder, making sure it was a jpeg and that the "titles and keywords" box was checked.
I exported a few photos that would require the same keywords (but had none) to the download folder.
I closed iPhoto, then reopened it holding down the option key. I made a new library and then imported the file with the keywords and the other 3 without.
I added keywords to the other 3 photos in this new library.
For two photos, I added the keywords from the grid view (all 4 photos were on the screen) and the same behavior occurred - those two keywords disappeared as soon as I clicked out of the box. For one photo, I needed to add a face and when I did so, it enlarged that photo to fill the screen. I added the keywords while it was the only photo on the screen and it took all 4 keywords without deleting any.
I reproduced this in the original library as well. It will add the keywords if that's the only photo on the screen, but will delete those two if I'm adding keywords to a photo that's in grid view.

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