Keywords - inadvertently added when synching files

Using Lightroom 2.6 in x64 Vista
Let me explain my problem:
When I move files from camera to disk I put them in folders named:
09 05 12
09 08 15, etc.
the number is the date the images were captured in year:month;day format, so they sort themselves easily into date order.
These are all on a dedicated drive which I call thePhotoshop drive. While the files are on this disk, I add keywords (using File Info in Bridge) and make gross adjustments in Bridge and occasionally generate a PSD in Photoshop which is saved to the same directory.
After I have added keywords, made adjustments and backed up the files to DVD, I then use Windows Explorer to move the directories (09 05 05, etc) from the Photoshop drive to another dedicated drive I call the Lightroom drive and put them in a folder for the year: 2003, 2004 ... up to 2009.
So folder 2009 will have in it sub-folders named: 09 05 12, 09 08 15, etc.
I do not use the Import Images function of Lightroom. Instead, once the files are moved to the lightroom drive, I tell lightroom to Synchronize the 2009 folder. This finds all the new folders I have added to the 2009 folder, the files in them and adds the keywords that I added to each image in Bridge.
But there is a problem: The last time I did this, I found that two extra keywords were added to all files and that these keywords had nothing to do with the images in question, rather they belonged to images brought in in a previous synch session.
I have looked in Auto Import Settings and there are no keywords specified so they are not originating there, even though I don't use the import function. But clearly the extra two keywords (which have affected almost 1,000 images) are coming from someplace but I can't figure out where. There seems to be no obvious other place to specify default keywords in Lightroom.
Can anyone tell me where Lightroom might be picking these up and how to clear them so the are not added the next time I bring in more images?
Thanks,
Bill

Hal,
As I said, I didn't use the import function per se, but I think you're right.
I think where I messed up was looking at File > Auto Import > Auto Import Settings to see if there were keywords saved and there were none. So I assumed that was all I needed to check.
But, if I go to File > Import Photos From Disk, select a random image and proceed from there, two keywords appear in the dialog box in the next window. So Auto Import and Import Photos from Disk must maintain separate lists of keywords and even if one is cleared, the other apparently is not. I suppose that might be considered a convenience, but it's really more of a snare for the unwary.
If that is so, then even though I merely moved the directories over with Explorer and then used Synchronize, the synchronize function must pull the keywords from Import from Disk without asking if I want to use them when it finds new files. That could be a problem because occasionally I open a file from Lightroom in Photoshop, edit and save it back with a different name like xyz version 2.psd. Lightroom will not find it unless I synchronize the folder. That might result in the revision picking up unwanted keywords, if synchronize pulls settings from Import. I'll check the next time I do it.
For safety I'll also have to get used to using the Import dialog rather than using the Windows Explorer > synchronize trick.
Thanks for your help,
Bill

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