Smart Collection Filtering Problem

I have set-up identical smart collections in both Bridge and Lightroom 2.4.
In Bridge I have a Keyword called "Collages" and a sub-keyword (under Collages) called "Story Bridge".
In Bridge there are some images where I have only clicked on the sub-keyword "Story Bridge" (and not Callages). There are other images where I select the keyword "Collages" as well as sub-keyword "Story Bridge".
In Bridge I then set-up a smart collection that filters for both "Collages" and "Story Bridge". Both must be in the keywords for the image. This filters correctly ie the images that were only keyworded as "Story Bridge" are not included in the collection.
I then go to Lightroom and synchronise the relevant folders so all keywords in Bridge are brought into Lightroom.
I then set-up exactly the same Smart Collection that must have both "Collages" and "Story Bridge" as their keywords. This time Lightroom also includes all images that were only keyworded with "Story Bridge". Why is this so? I only want the images that have both "Collages" and "Story Bridge" in their keywords but I now also get the images with just "Story Bridge" as their keyword.
I have selected "Match all of the following rules" and added 2 rules for "Collages" and "Story Bridge".
In Bridge I get the correct filtered images but in Lightroom, with the same rules, I get all images with "Collages" or "Story Bridge" as keywords.
I have attached the smart collection filter dialogue boxes for both Bridge and Lightroom.
Any help would be appreciated.

I suspect that we will see these differences go away in time. Bridge is part of the Creative Suite and Photoshop family and codebase. Lightroom, while part of the Photoshop family, was a whole new approach with an entirely different codebase. Over time we'll see more convergence and various aspects of the applications will operate similarly.
I'm sure it's a monumental task for the teams at Adobe to coordinate all these moving pieces and features. Who knows what LR 3.0 and CS5 will bring to the table!

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