Photoshop truncates photo mechanic field to 32 characters

I add IPTC info to photo files when ingesting into Photo Mechanic. If I later edit the photo in Photoshop C6, it truncates the "Description Writer" (and possibly other fields) to 32 characters. That means I have to reload the IPTC file to correct this.
Does Photoshop have a solution that will prevent this truncation?
Thank you.

Brilliant John. Quote for LR transporter website
LR/Transporter also offers the ability to modify certain metadata fields (such as the IPTC title and caption) based on other metadata fields. This allows you to, for example, define the Title field from a combination of other fields such as the filename. (Requires Lightroom 2 or later).
Will look into that some more

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