Star ratings in Vista and PSE6 not shared

In PSE6, I rate my pictures using the 1-5 star rating system. I also have a mini-slideshow in my Vista sidebar, for which I sometimes pull up a picture. This opens the pic in Windows Photo Gallery (WPG), where I can also assign the star rating. My problem is if I rate a photo in WPG, that star rating doesn't transfer to the same photo when viewed using PSE6.
Is it possible to transfer the star rating into PSE6? I thought WPG would add that info into the picture's metadata but apparently that's not the case.

To build on Barbaras answer:
Technically, both PSE 6 and Windows Live Photo Gallery store a photos rating in the metadata field XMP:Rating. But because both programs cache (save away) metadata information in their own proprietary catalogs, they wont play nicely.
If you set a photos rating in WLPG, it will write it to the XMP:Rating field. If you then import that photo into PSE 6, PSE will pick up the rating.
Conversely, if you set a photos rating in PSE 6 and do File > Write Keyword Tags, the rating will be written to the XMP:Rating field. If you then view that photo for the first time in WLPG (e.g. by adding its folder), WLPG will pick up the rating.
But once a photo is imported into both programs, changes made to the metadata by one program wont be visible to the other. Thats because these programs only read the metadata in the file when they first import it into their catalog. Changes made after that get stored in their proprietary catalog and get written back to the file, but they never get read back in.
The same properties apply to keyword tags set by the programs.

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