Transferring keyword changes in PSE7 to LR2.4

Good morning.
I use LR for the majority of my editing (except photomerge and some layers work) and intend using it for my future metadata/keywords. However I am enjoying using PSE7 for adding keywords and cataloging to all my old photos. I have done nearly half of my 6000+ photos adding key words, GPS positions ...
However I find that PSE reads the keywords of LR but not vice versa. I have reimported in LR but still the keywords I have added in PSE are not showing.
This may be better in the LR forum so if I don't receive help here I am happy to copy it across to the LR forum.
Thanking you in advance.
Neville

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http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/#_Writing_File_Metadata

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