I beg your pardon, but above you said:
Nothing prevents keywords from being stored. If you enter a keyword when uploading a photo then it is stored.
That option you refer to only prevents them from being displayed. It has nothing to do with search at all.
and now you are saying:
Essentially what your saying by saying dont display keywords is i dont want to use them but then again you do.
so it's quite an issue, as I want to use the keywords for search, but not to be displayed, in the admin panel the option is "show keywords" not "dont use keywords".
and when I upload the images, or take them from an URL the keywords box is there waiting for me to type them in, making me think that they will be used, while they are not.. 3000 images uploaded with relatives keywords typed in, a hell of a work for nothing. and with the only option to modify every single image one by one to correct this?

what should i do with the code you wriote before? copy it instead of the original, and then keywords will be stored but not shown?