Thanks for paying attention and getting back to me :-)
What I was looking at is at the gallery level, keywords, permissions, like restricting viewing metadata in Zenfolio and setting the drop down categories for Zenfolio seem to need to be added after the fact by going to the web interface. It's a nice to have if that could be set somehow - for me I'd like to always restrict metadata from showing up in the galleries I create and upload from PM. If it was add a new custom template that's modified by hand that might be "fairly easy".
It was just an idea it's a nice to have .... I am a bit more interested in this other issue at the moment.
Zenfolio's reply to me this morning....
======
Hi,
Thank you for your patience while we looked into this.
After extensive research, this appears to be a problem with Photo Mechanic and not Zenfolio. We recommend you contact them to inquire further.
Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.
All the best,
Laura
Zenfolio Customer Support
Maybe you can shake a log out of them.