Where does Lightroom save color correction info?

I'm having a problem with Lightroom in the way it saves the color correction information attached to a raw file.
I'm using raw files off of an external hard drive, color correcting them and then saving that whole folder to my internal hard drive.
The problem is that after I disconnect the external hard drive and import the folder from my internal hard drive, none of the file conversions I just made are showing. This is extreamly frustrating and time consuming as I'm adjusting about 1000 files at a time.
Why is this?
The external drive is my client's so I have to find a way to get the color corrected raw files on both drives.
Thanks to anyone that can help

Here is my work flow:
Working on 1 computer in 1 version of Lightroom that is set up to save the Catalog on my internal hard drive.
I attach client's external drive and use the Lightroom Import dialog to add files to catalog without moving (they stay on the external and I edit them there).
Working in Lightroom I make the adjustments to the CR2 files that have stayed on the external drive.
"At the end select all the images and save metadata to file." I believe I have missed this step. I though Lightroom did this automaticly.
Is this my problem?
After making the adjustments I selected all of the files from the external and copied them to my internal drive, however I did this outside of Lightroom.
This may have been a problem also.
If my catalog has been stored on my internal drive the whole time why did the developing information not get saved to it?
"You can also do this by exporting a catalog file from the source machine to the external disk and then importing
this catalog into the target machine."
Using this technique in the future could I do all of this?
1. edit the files directly on the external drive
2. save the metadata to the files
3. export the files (though lightroom) onto my internal hard drive
4. have the raw files on my internal hard drive with the saved development made to them and be able to open them in lightroom and see them adjusted
5. have the raw files on my client's external hard drive with the saved development made to them and be able to open them in lightroom on another computer and see them adjusted
Thanks again for all of your help!
C

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