Renaming files in my workflow.

I know there is a ton of renmaing threads, but for the sake of the belief that the dev team are reading these threads I offer mine.
I shoot catalogs, tons of product shots one after the other.
To avoid confusion, we rename the file name as we go with the product's SKU while holding the item's paperwork in our hands. Then the layout people have a file with the correct SKU for placement into the layouts.
We do several hundred of these shots one after the other. We use Bridge to rename, one click to hilight, paste our own internal project number and then type in the SKU. Then we move to the next widget.
I can't figure out how to do this quickly in Aperture. Any suggestions?

b_gossweiler wrote:
Sorry, I cannot reproduce what you're seeing. This is the metadata I see on a photo shot on 01/17/2011, imported on 09/02/2011 and renamed after import:
You might want to report this as a but here, as this is not expected behaviour and I don't believe there's an option to control that.
Beat
Gosh you do have a big screen................
Let's see what the posters screen shot looks like.........

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