XMP Metadata created in Premiere not searchable with Bridge?

I am working on a 13 episodes TV show and need to identify shot content using Metadata. Each episode will be a different Premiere Project.
I want to be able to search through all the footage at once to find specific shot and bring them in another project if needed. So I was under the assumption that I could add values in the XMP Comment Field in Premiere and be able to search that with Adobe Bridge. I did a test and Bridge don't find anything. I tried searching "All Metadata" in the Find Dialog box in Bridge and nothing comes up. What am I doing wrong?

XMP is a powerful metadata format and I believe that it can be written directly to any mov or mp4 format media but not other formats such as mts. I have also experimented with using Prelude, Bridge, and Premiere to try and tag my footage. The conclusion I came to was that it just isnt worth the effort yet. None of them really communicate with each other very well and the interface for searching metadata (even after painfully inputting it using their metadata panels) is slow and cumbersome. Adobe did great by creating xmp, and lots of highend propriety software solutions for broadcast seem to be using it with custom software but there is nothing at the low end for normal users. Bridge doesn't seem to have been touched in several years. Even Lightroom, which would appear to be Adobe's most natural video tagger/organiser for the prosumer, doesn't create searchable usable tag data for use with Premiere. Right now I would say a good folder structure, using Finder's tag system (if you are on a mac), and spreasdsheets are the best way to work on smaller projects. Just my $2.

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        <dc:creator>The creator</dc:creator>
        <dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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I was following this post for a LONG time, since I noticed the same problem.
This week I was getting in it into myself again and I noticed you use load-config. I used these compiler options :
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<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'>
    <rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1'>
        <dc:format>application/x-shockwave-flash</dc:format>
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</rdf:RDF>
Sadly there was no way I could add this / myself everytime.
BUT then I discoverd this option :
raw-metadata XML_string
Defines the metadata for the resulting SWF file. The value of this option overrides any metadata.* compiler options (such as contributor,creator, date, and description).
This is an advanced option.
And you could give the exact RAW XML as you described
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to the compiler. This could also be done in Flash with JSFL.
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