IPTC description got lost - a bug?

Hi folks,
recently I started to use LR (2.5, 64bit version) to also edit my IPTC fields (only the RAW files, Nikon in my case) and unfortunately I ran into trouble doing so.
After I had finished the whole image and IPTC work I moved the image files and their related XMP files (which include the whole text related metadata) to another hard drive, my "finished work" hard drive. This part of the workflow did never make any trouble with the IPTC stuff, as long as I did not use LR for that. What has happened:
This morning, when I started my PC (Intel Quadcore and XP Prof. 64bit) and opened LR I agreed to first save the catalog, as I always do. And all the IPTC description fields of all the moved RAW-files are completely empty (and the information is missing in the XMP files as well), only the description fields!
Is there still a misconception between what the LR database stores and what and when this is available in the XMP files?
Anyway, for me this seems to be bug!
This will cost me about 2 additional hours to recover the missing IPTC descriptions from a TIFF selection I made out of the finished RAW files, yesterday.
Knowing that there is a time gap between what's stored in the LR database and what and when it is available in the XMP files,
I always have set the LR catalog settings to "save changes automatically to XMP". Additionally, I regularly save the metadata settings by doing so manually ("STRG+S, or choosing "save metadata to file"), at least once a day or after major sessions. Anyway, this did not help in this case.
Anybody out there having an idea about the what and why on the problem above?
Thanks a lot in advance
Thomas

Hi dj_page,
thanks for your efforts. And here are my answers to your questions:
1. are you sure you have write access to the folder on your hard disk where the .xmp file is located?
Full access.
2. How are you moving these files to the 2nd hard drive ... Lightroom or Windows?
Windows. (I am always doing it this way. Btw, I am using Windows' tool robocopy to incrementally backup all my image files. Robocopy has proven to be absolutely reliable).
3. Before you move, does Lightroom show the message in the Metadata panel that the files re up to date?
Mmh, what exaclty do you mean by "re up to date"?
I usually do an additional manually "save metadate to file", to be sure (!) that the last metadata upadates are in the XMPs.
Kind regards
Thomas

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