Lightroom Syncing Challenges

Hi,
I need to overcome 3 inter-related challenges in my current Adobe Lightroom project.
Here is the situation:
1) I have got an online database which stores individual image records. I've written a Lightroom export plugin for my clients to upload their images to our server and adding records to my online database. Ideally, for each image they have uploaded, I would like to add a database id reference to their images in Lightroom. My first question is : What would be the best approach to write the database reference to an image in Lightroom? EXIF? Metadata? Keywords?
2) Once I've got the images from my clients, I take those images and I create a separate Lightroom catalog and import those images into that catalog on my computer. I then modify those images for my clients and what I want to do next is to export those changes that I have made and return it to my clients. I do not want to export them as separate images to save large transfers, I just want to export the changes. Is there any ways in Lightroom that allows me to achieve that?
3) Finally, if number 2 is possible and I am able to export the changes in some kind of export file(s). Is there anyway for my clients to sync their images with the changes that I made? Updating their images in their existing catalog on their computer.
Thanks in Advance,
Simon

Hi Rob,
Thanks for the reply. I will go look into custom metadata for 1).
However, for 2) & 3) I have tried doing what you suggested. It seems to only give me the option to import the modify images as new images instead of updating the existing one on the client's catalog. I think when I import the client's images on my catalog it import them as brand new images and when I pass my catalog back to them. The client's Lightroom doesn't recognise the importing images already exisited in their catalog and the image path is not referring to their local copy but to mine. What I want to export is only what I have done to the image (since LR is lossless) so the data transfer would be minimal.
Hope this make sense...
Thanks
Simon

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