Turns out, my problem with metadata in my pictures was I didn't have the latest RAW support installed.  This was evidently something that Adobe fixed.  Oh well, at least I learned alot about XMP and got more of the Flickr API implemented.  I'll have to come up with a strategy for replacing 1GB of pictures.  I also want to add a few more steps in my processing.  Alot of the pictures turned out a little dull.  I think I won't be in such a hurry to get them uploaded in the future.