LR3 smart collection not updating

I shoot for a college and I have smart collection setup to show me my best shots for each sport. There are some images that won't appear in my smart collection and I can't figure out why. All the other sports collection work fine. This collection does show me some of the images, but not all based on my criteria. Yes, I've checked that the criteria is correct. Any ideas as to why this is happeneing? How can I fix this? is this a program error or bug?

Thank you.
I don't see that you're doing anything wrong in the SC definition. That file should be selected.
There are a couple of things that you might try:
--Delete the SC and re-create it. I've seen cases where collections were working wierdly and re-doing them helped.
--Try filtering for those things in the Grid view. You can devote two or more columns to Keywords. If you select several keywords in the same column, you get an "or" relationship. Selecting keywords in different columns gives an "and" relationship. Assuming this works, you can click the double-headed arrow at the end of the filter bar and save the filter as a preset.
Hal

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