> I want to remove ONLY the rabbit, but leave the pets, dog, cat, and fish as is.
I can't think of a simple way to do this in ThumbsPlus.
The hard way would be to write the keywords of these images to the database, then delete the rabbit keyword using Database | Edit Keywords, then add the database keywords back to the images clearing the existing ones.. :)
> prefer to be able to do it in thumbsplus, but I have no problem using a stand alone program.
The most powerful metadata editor is a command line driven utility named Exiftool ([link=http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/]link[/link]). Most third party EXIF/IPTC-editors are based on its source code.