Missing Metadata from Lightroom Gallery Jpegs

I have been making some Lightroom web galleries using standard templates that are included in LR. However when I examine or remove the large jpegs it seems that my metadata has been stripped out by the process. I'm looking at the large photo in Photoshop CS3 by going to File>File Information. None of the keywords or copyright information is present.
The metadata displays correctly in the Library area within Lighroom.
I'm using Mac OS 10.4.8

Thanks for the suggestion Sean, I'll give that a try. I'll also run a test by simply trashing the old sidecar files. That may be the path of least resistance.
I hate to go back to Bridge especially after spending the last year using Photo Mechanic, which I still use in my assignment workflow. For editing, ranking and renaming it's head and shoulders above Bridge but it's weakness is that it can't make customized web galleries and it's not a RAW converter either. It does make galleries but they lack even the most basic HTML customizable features without serious coding. That said, Photo Mechanic's ability to embed metadata is fantastic. You can even embed the unique file name of each image as a keyword. If you've ever been handed back one of your own images by a client after they remove the file name and spent time searching for it you'll begin to appreciate being able to go to the metadata and just get the file name in the keyword field.
I'm using Lightroom only to make web galleries for my stock site and it's very important to me that copyright info gets embedded into each image. Keywords would be helpful too but that's not a deal breaker.
So far Lightroom has been fantastic as a batch processing tool but I'm amazed at how difficult it is with metadata. If metadata can't reliably be entered and saved in files then what good is it? The thing that bothers me the most is that it looks as if it's totally stripped out in the gallery process which is unspeakably awful.
I hope that the answer is that I'm doing something wrong in my processing and that it's easily fixable.

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