Merging virtual copies back into original

Hi,
I'm using Lightroom 2 and have finally got round to creating a single master catalogue from all of my yearly ones.
Somehow during the importing I managed to pull in a load (1400) photos without their develop settings.
This would have been fine if I'd noticed before spending days reorganising my keywords.
Thanks to lightroom being able to detect duplicates on import from catalogue, I've managed to re-import the "developed" versions, keeping the originals as virtual copies. This means I now have a set of 1400 original images with the correct developing changes (and no keywords) - each one has a single virtual copy with no developing but the correct keywords.
Can anyone think of a way of copying the keywords back into the originals for all 1400 photos? I want to get rid of the virtual copies.
Seems like there should be some way of doing this?
Cheers in advance for any advice.
Nick

Hi,
I did originally import the photos from catalogue - the problem is I got out of sync somehow (PEBKAC - I probably developed in the original catalogue and keyworded in the new master one).
However, LR2 thankfully allowed me to reimport the settings for each photo and I used "create a virtual copy" thankfully - otherwise I'd have wiped out my tidied up keywords.
Problem is as below...
               develop settings     keywords
Original       correct                  none (I intentionally deleted the crappy old ones)
VC              wrong                   correct
All I want to do is copy the keywords from the VC to the orig (but for 1400 photos)
Nick

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