Resolving metadata conflicts

I finally got a handle on the Keywords & hierarchies and made sure that all my keywords will export. I then went back to Title & Caption all my images.  For the 4 previous folders of images when I did that, when it told me that there was a metadata conflict, I would just hit "resolve" and it would fix it and tell me it is "up to date".  I am ONLY keywording and adding captions in Lightroom 4.4. I am not using an external editor. I have my LR images in ".dng" Now, I just finished 2 more folders and when I tried to resolve the conflict, it gave me an error message on all of them. The metadata status in the right pane says"Changed on disk" (but still shows the alert on my image)
As a test, I selected one image and tried to resolve it but got the same message. It prompts me "save metadata to file?", informing me that the XMP will be written into my "dng" files and prompts me to cancel or continue. When I hit continue, it gives me an error message I/O and says it could not write metadata.  If I choose "Read metadata from File", it erases all my keywords and the title and caption.  I tried "updating DNG Preview & Metadata" but it just seems to stall when looking at the task bar.
Also, what is the difference when I resolve conflict and get the message "up to date" (I assume that's good) and "metadata has been changed" (is that good or bad?). 
I just spent hours & hours writing in the keywords, captions & titles. I'd hate to have to start over.

In the grand scheme, using only file extensions to denote different files is a really bad idea. Yes, it's :easy" but relying on just the extension to keep different files from being overwritten is just poor practice.
Which is the primary reason that Lightroom made the decision to only accept one single file as being the "truth of the image". Ideally, what you would do is import the raw files and treat that as the "original" and make either exported files (consumable files that are not part of the database) or Photoshop -Edit files which are part of the database. Adding the -Edit denote the file is edited and therefore NOT the original.
One can argue with that logic from the standpoint of raw + jpgs...and 1.1 will fix that. But unless you explicitly tell Lightroom to ignore the existence of similarly named files, 1.1 will still prevent multiple duplicates in the database. Although the wording on import has been changed to make is more understandable...
So, yes, in 1.1 you WILL be able to import raw + jpg as a special case so you can get both in the database, but by default Lightroom STILL really only wants a single file to represent the "truth" of an image. And if you are using .tiff and .psd to represent anything other than simply a different file format, you really should reconsider that practice.

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