Transfering photos with titles, comments, etc between computers

I have a MacBook and an iMac. The iMac is my primary computer and has the larger hard drive. I store all my pictures on the iMac. When I am on the road, I like to update my photos by adding titles, comments, and keywords.
Is there a way I can take a specific album or set of pictures (not the whole library), export them to include all titles, keywords, comments, etc to my MacBook. Import them in iPhoto on my MB and then when I am done, export those pictures back to my iMac, preserving all the new keywords, comments, titles that I added?
I have read here that there are some people suggesting that people make a CD/DVD of the images by exporting to CD which is to include the XML data of the images. But I do not wish to do this, as I am going to be transfering these pictures frequently.
I appreciate your help.
Lee

No, connect the two computers so that you can access both from whichever one you want as the primary. You can use a firewire cable and put one in the Target Mode. Then launch iPLM and add both libraries to its list of available libraries. Then you can do the moving between the libraries. This is the only application that can do the merge of copy of files between libraries and keep the metadata, etc. iPhoto Buddy only lets you manage, i.e. move between, multiple libraries.

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