Writing & Searching Metadata

I've ingested a large batch of h.264's using Prelude (without transcoding) and I've written lots of metadata into the 'Dynamic Media' and 'Script' schemas.
I'm now using the files in Premiere and I'm not able to search for some keywords that I know have been assigned.
I'm also unable to write any metadata at all to P2, .MXF files in Prelude.
I was able to write metadata after I'd tried transcoding a couple of MXF's but I'd rather not have to do that.
Any ideas?
Thanks,

Hi Mark,
Thanks for the response and advice.
I have tried using the CMD+F function to search which did successfully search the Script schema, although this search method is not realistic as it only produces ONE result at a time.
I have logged a large amount of media and it would be incredibly inefficient to sift through each clip one at a time as opposed to a bin search which immediately FILTERS the results so I see everything that's relevant and nothing that isn't.
The good news I guess is that the Adobe search engine IS functional in searching the script schema but somehow not from the main search field.
BTW, I did speak to Ankit Singh from Adobe Support who was trying to replicate the problem but I've not heard back from him ((Case #0186059787)
Thanks,

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