IPhoto 9.3 - keywords issue

I'm having an issue where keywords input to the keywords section of the info panel by manual typing immediately disappear.
When I noticed this, I attempted going to the next photo and returning which did not work.
I also, tried quitting and restarting iPhoto which results in the keywords I've typed that disappeared immediately now being visible...so it is holding the keywords, just having an issue with displaying them until an application restart.
Next, I made a duplicate of my library using the Rebuild Library command in iPhoto Library Manager 3.8...this seemed to solve the problem for all of about 5 minutes...after a few clicks, it went right back to the same issues.
Now I'm discovering different behavior after an application restart. At first, it will work properly, then will not even let me input any text (not even a character) into the keywords section of the info panel. I can still use the keyword manager to input keywords, but I much prefer to type them.
I first noticed this issue when I was inputing keywords, while accessing my Mac from another Mac using Screen Sharing.
This was also the first time I've used iPhoto since updating to 9.3, so I'm wondering if it's a 9.3 bug.
Once my latest Time Machine backup is complete I was thinking about uninstalling/reinstalling iPhoto to see how that works using the method I found here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3716732?start=0&tstart=0
I'm very concerned about losing all the rich metadata I've input to iPhoto.
Any suggestions or ideas would be much appreciated.

I'm having the same problem, with 9.3, but had it with previous version sometimes also. Sometimes the keyword "sticks", sometimes it doesn't. Now most of the time it doesn't. Similar problem with names from time to time.

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--- Keyword glitches -----
I've repeatedly encountered some issues with adding keywords to photos in iPhoto 11 (9.2.3).
For example, I'm pretty sure I did not apply "keyword A" to a dozen photos ... but there it is along side the correctly applied keywords.
So I select the images with the mis-applied "keyword A" and delete "keyword A" in the info panel. This works fine, one-photo-at-a-time. But I get good AND bad results when trying this over a range of photos. Often iPhoto deletes other keywords, or I find that photos that should still have three or four keywords have none. And only ONE was deleted. These are huge cataloguing problems.
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This and the speed issue suggest a minor glitch in the Library.
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
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Help us to help you: There are 9 different versions of iPhoto and they run on seven different versions of the Operating System. The tricks and tips for dealing with issues vary from version to version and OS to OS. So before anyone can help, they need information to work with. Basic stuff:
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- What version of the Operating System.
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- Did it ever work properly?
- Are there error messages?
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Anything else you can think of that might allow someone else to understand your issue.
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Posts that consist of "iPhoto doesn't work. Help" or "iPhoto won't print" or "Suddenly I have no photos!!!!!!!!!!" mean that any helper is simply guessing. More information means you get better assistance. (And no, more exclamation marks do not get help faster or make your issue seem urgent. They just make it seem like you have a stuck key )

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I have been meticulously adding keywords to a very large group of photos to help organize them. A few times now, a keyword I applied to a selection of photos - maybe 100 out of thousands - ends up applied to my entire photo collection. Anyone know what I did, if anything, to make this happen? It's a real drag, considering the only way to fix the issue is to remove the offending keyword from all of my photos in one fell swoop and then go back and re-do the ones that I DID want tagged. So frustrating!
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D

Ziggar
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Here’s a test. Grab a folder full of those images and drag it to the desktop. See how long that takes.
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