Organizing Keywords in Keyword List

I have a mish-mash of keywords. I have been using Bridge to do keywording, and had most keywords in a structure like:
Animals
Cat
Dog
People
Joe Blow
Joe Smith
John Smith
Propellor
Props
Proven
The problem is, once I imported my 35,000 image catalog into LR2, it picked up all the keywords from that I had assigned years ago, before I had even this simple of a structure.
So, I'd like to start putting all of my animals under the 'Animals' top-level keyword. I'm hoping someone can tell me that there's a better way than scrolling through hundreds of keywords, finding 'Zebra', and then having to drag it back to the very top and place it into the 'Animals' keyword?
I tried dragging multiple keywords, it didn't like that (wouldn't allow it). I've also played around with importing and exporting keywords, but I'm not sure that's the direction I need to take.
Any tips or suggestions? Ideally I could edit the whole mess in a text editor or something like that, externally, then import a new set back in. But I imagine that plays havoc on the database and the concept of LR as a whole.....

Frank, I feel your pain :) Keeping a good keywords structure is important, IMO, and I find it annoying that there is no standard way of handling this. Each app behaves differently, and neither EXIF nor IPTC have support for hierarchical keywords. Fortunately, Adobe has added a space in XMP for hierarchical keywords. Anyway...
I think this is going to be a PITA for you no matter what. Either you have to do the drag-and-drop dance in LR or a cut-and-paste dance in a text editor. Somehow I think it would be quicker in LR.
Don't forget that the images contain the keywords in a flat structure, so re-importing them would cause e.g. Dog to reappear at the root of the hierarchy. Best option there is probably to use LR's option of exporting keywords hierarchically, which I think applies to imports as well. That means you need to use an IPTC editor to edit all the images, adding the dots or whatever. Alternatively, or in addition, find an XMP editor and add the keywords to the lightroom space "hierarcical-keywords" (I think that's what the tag is named).
Obviously, no good workarounds here.

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