Tags/keywords not recognized when importing photos

I am using Lightroom 1.3.1 and I am trying to set up a new catalog of all of my personal photos. I previously had used Adobe Photoshop Elements 5, then more recently Windows Live Photo Gallery to do all of my organization and tagging. Before making the jump to Lightroom, I wanted to get my photos organized before doing the initial import. So I organized them into folders by year/month/day. Then I imported them all in place into Lightroom. However, of about 4000 tagged photos Lightroom only imported the tags for about 1000 of them. If I take a photo with no keywords in Lightroom and look at it in Live Photo Gallery, with Microsoft's Photo Info tool, or using Photoshop's file info, I can see that tags. However, Lightroom doesn't show any keywords. With Photoshop file info I can see the keywords listed in the following places in the metadata: xap:Keywords, photoshop:keywords, MicrosoftPhoto:LastKeywordXMP, MicrosoftPhoto:LastKeywordIPTC, dc:subject. Looking at the metadata I can't see any difference between the photos that had their keywords imported and those that didn't. Where does Lightroom look for keywords? More importantly how can I get Lightroom to recognize the the keywords from all of these photos that I have already tagged? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the information. I am running Windows Vista. When I look at the image properties in explorer, I can see that 'tags' field and the tags are present as expected. Any metadata that was used Elements has been written to the files. I can see the tags in the files' metadata. I have already added the "Treat '/' as a keyword separator" in Lightroom. That is working fine for the keywords that it recognizes.
Previously my files just had the default names from the camera and they were put in folder according to the date I imported them from the camera. Before importing them into Lightroom I reorganized my photos by the date the pictures were taken. I used Downloader Pro to organize them in folder by Year->Month->yyyy-mm-dd using the capture date. The file names were also renamed by date and time like: 'yyyy-mm-dd hh'mm'ss.jpg'. All of my photos have the exact same folder/name structure. I can look into a single folder and some of images have their tags imported and others don't. The pictures were taken at the same time, with the same camera, and moved and processed together. In Vista's explorer the tags show up on on all of the photos, but in Lightroom only some of them will have tags. It is bazaar, in some folders all of the images get their tags imported, but in most folders, none of them get imported. Then in a few folders there will just be one or two of the images that have their tags imported.
Any other ideas about the problem, or ideas on how to troubleshoot would be greatly appreciated.

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