Metadata written in Bridge partly not imported in Aperture

Just bought Aperture and use it on a new MacBookPro 2.4. Started to import a project with files which had metadata ( captions, keywords etc.) written in Adobe Bridge about two years ago. Aperture imported the files but about one third of the pictures does not show captions anymore. Opening the same pictures in Bridge shows that there are still captions and keywords.
What could be the reason?

Thanks a lot. That was the first post of my life and I got help with a problem which Apple-Professional-Care was not able to give. But I still have a question. I understand that captions in a RAW-file are not imported into the Aperture library. Captions written with Bridge into a JPG-file are imported. Okay so far! But what about TIFF-files (I do not mean the tif-files (CANONS RAW-files of the EOS 1ds) I mean real uncompressed TIFF-files. Why does Aperture import captions of some of those files and others not. For example I have pictures which are just slide variations of a subject, which were taken within seconds of each other and both turned into a TIFF-file and then captioned and keyworded. There was no difference in working with these pictures before they were captioned.
Nevertheless some files were imported with captions and ohters were not.
That makes me a bit reluctand to use Aperture. I scanned more then 20 years of work for the worlds mayor maganzines and have started to caption them two years ago with bridge after trying to caption them with "Fotostation" which was used by STERN-magazine in Germany, my mayor customer at that time. All of a sudden captions written with this software did not show anymore with Photoshop because Adobe changed something with Photoshop. I promised my self never ever to use another software than that of the marketleader to be sure not to do that painstaking work anymore of captioning old stories.
That is why I am hesitating now although I believe Apple -software will not give me the same problems. Most pictureeditors and customers use Photoshop or another Adobe software. So I want to be sure, that my pictures will always be able to show captions in any Adobe software in the future.
What I like with Apple is the lighttable-mode. It is like handling hundreds of slides on my good old fashoned lighttable. Also the vault system is important for me to safe and backup the daily work of my assistant and me in a quick and effortless way. Handling 4 Terrabit of pictures is fifficult and I do not want to loose pictures in the process to organise my files because they were forgotten to be safed.
That was why Aperture was my choice. But I cannot afford to check every imported file and rewrite the missing captions. Storing my pictures as JPGs is not an alternative. I want to keep them as TIFF files after I worked them out.
To ask the question again: What could be the reason that some Tiff files are imported with captions and others, which are just variations and captioned the same way are not?
Thanks a lot for any sugestion!

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