Where are keyword files located and how do I get them into lightroom 4?

I have upgraded from lightroom 3 to lightroom 4.  In many cases the keywords are missing - sort of. When I click on a single photo, the keywords don't show up.  If I select a bunch of photos, the keywords show up as a group.  Why aren't they listed for individual photos?  How can I get them "connected" without redoing each photo?  Let me know if you need more information.  It seems I read somewhere that the keywords are kept in a separate file (many of these photos are jpg, so I'm not talking .xmp), but I can't find where I read this.  Anyone know?
Thanks for help.
Margaret

Hello.  It looks like I recovered all my keywords attached to photos.  What I did:
First I located all photos without keywords using a metadata search.
I found that it seemed to be certain groups of photos that had no keywords.  I decided to at least get the main keyword on all of those in a particular group, like Canyonlands. 
Once I added one of the keywords, the others all showed up magically!  I then went to each group of photos and added the main keyword, and the others came along and attached to the photos.
Don't understand why this occurred or why it got fixed, since it was so random.  But, I'm glad to have my keywords restored (I had divided flowers by color, etc. so it was a lot of work!)
Thanks for the discussion and help.

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