Time Machine losing Iphoto Keywords

Is there a way to recover images from Iphoto while keeping the attached keywords? When viewing previous versions of my pictures in Time Machine, I noticed that the keywords under each image had disappeared. As a test I deleted a picture and restored it using Time Machine. The keyword attached to that photo was no longer there. This could be a hassle if I needed to recover all my photos in the event of a hard drive crash. Thanks in advance for your help.
John

I think I have an answer to your question #2... if I understand you correctly, you're saying that you created a file and then backed it up... once it was backed up, you deleted it from the original drive? Is that correct? It then continued to show up in the hourly backups until 24 hrs had passed, correct?
If so, here's the answer... you will notice that TM keeps hourly backups for the past 24 hrs... once 24 hrs have passed, a backup is 'expired' and is purged... the exception to this seems to be the 1st backup created for a day... this is the one that remains as the 'daily backup'...
As such, if you create a file and then back it up... it will be preserved for a short time but then it will be purged... because TM seems to take the approach that the file is not really important... I'm not sure I exactly agree but that's what I think it's doing...
Please reference my posting for greater explanation...
[Time Machine Deleted Files From A Non-Full Backup?|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5711815#5711815]

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