Newbie question on file tags / keywords

Over the last few years I have taken a few thousand pictures and have them organized with tags using Vista Photo Gallery. This application worked great, but I how have purchased Photoshop SC5 and would like to start working with Bridge. I can see the tags that I set in Photo Gallery, but not sure how I can utilize them in Bridge to sort/locate files. Does anyone have any suggestions, since I don’t what to have to manually create a keyword for every tag. Is there any way for me to select all my images and import the data into the Bridge database structure?

keyword/tags in most cases are written to
the image. When you open the image in Bridge and you see the keyword
it should show up in the keyword panel.
If it is italicized it means it is temporary, and will be gone when you shut down bridge. It you want the keyword to be permanent right click on it and select "make persistent" from the fly out menu..

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