Kirk ~
Here's what I have discovered with the prior settings. The duplicate hierarchies stopped but the images still did not import properly, most often with no keywords showing in Lightroom. I could see them with Photoshop file info, under the advanced tab so they were in there. I found that when I add heirarchical keywords in Lightroom itself, it makes both regular keywords and the hierarchical keywords. Unchecking the box in the screenshot below, I have had success with a few images. I have 7,500 images that need to be re-keyworded and I will alert you if the problem arises again.
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