Replacing photos in catalog ...

Hi,
I have about 50 images in a LR3 catalog. I modified all the metadata for each. They are all jpegs and were pre-processed by a specialized image editing program before import. I now find I have to replace all 50 with new versions. I really don't want to re-do all the metadata. Is there any way to have LR overwrite the originals leaving the original metadata intact? The file names are the same. TIA for any guidance.
Brian

dj_paige,
Absolutely brilliant! LR even asked me if I wanted to overwrite or not. This has saved me a lot of work. I couldn't use a metadata preset because each image had significantly different data. Thank you.
Best to you
Brian

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