PSE10 writing tags to photos adds to old tags

I asked essentially this question in Elements Village a few days ago. No answers as yet, so I thought I'd try here...
In PSE10, I did "Write Keyword Tag and Properties Info to Photos" for some photos where I had done this in the past. In many cases I have added or replaced tags for those photos. Surprisingly, the files now have both the old tags and the new ones! Of course, I only want the new set of tags in the files. (I can't imagine why, if you change the tags in the Organizer, you would want to retain the ones you just removed!) Does anyone know how to
(1) fix the photo files, that is, remove the old tags I don't want, and
(2) avoid this the next time I Write Tags to Photos?
I found this post
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4049033#4049033
which indicated this was a bug in early 2011. Is it still a bug in PSE10? The suggestion is made to use psedbtool. Should I try this with PSE10, or is that a mistake? I'm not an SQL expert, but I've used SQL on my PSE database successfully in the past, so I'm quite willing to go that route.
FYI, I have a Windows 7 computer. I verify what is in the files with exiftool. However, just mousing over the photos in Windows Explorer is sufficient to see most of the metadata I need to look at. I have this problem with both TIFFs and JPEGs.
Thanks in advance,
Bill

See that link:
http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77258&highlight=IPTC
I can't find the post where an Adobe employee gave the solution for PSE11.
A tutorial :
http://photoshopelementstips.blogspot.fr/2012/11/how-to-edit-iptc-metadata-of-multiple.htm l
The IPTC management has been much improved, but I don't think even 1% of the users will find how to access that menu .

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