Putting IPTC Caption in Photo title at upload

I've done some reading around, and it doesn't appear there's an (easy, anyway) way of doing this. I have a bunch of captions of photos in Picasa, and when I export them for upload to Gallery, Picasa sticks my caption in the IPTC Caption field. Which is fine.

However, on the Gallery side, the only place I can get this imported is to put it in the Item Summary or the Item Description. I want them in the Item TITLE, not either of those fields listed.

I don't believe there's a way to re-route the info at upload, is there? Is there a hack that will allow me to do this, or an updated EXIF/IPTC module or something?

There isn't some trick where I can put something like %IPTC:Caption% in the Caption field at upload time, and tell it to use the caption for the title?

It wasn't. Upgraded to 2.3, and nothing changed there, so how do I activate the "populate item title" with IPTC captions?

I hit that already, I thought I mentioned that in the first post. There is no option in that to translate the caption to the TITLE. Despite what the FAQ says.

Edit: The option specifically says

"When photos are added to Gallery check for IPTC Object Name and apply to: "

I'm looking to get the IPTC CAPTION in the title, not the object name.

Is there any help on how to do that?

Maybe a bit late for you, but it might help someone else and I needed to do this today. My requirement was very simple - just to copy the IPTC caption into the Title field and not mess with anything else. The changes are minimal and only in modules/exif/ExifDescriptionOption.inc:

To force it to always process the EXIF block I changed this:

    /* Check if we need to get/process any exifdata */

to this:

    /* Check if we need to get/process any exifdata */
    /* Overwrite default to always look for IPTC Caption - SP */
    $needed[] = 'IPTC/Caption';

To always store the caption if it has been extracted I changed this:

    if (!empty($itemDescription)) {
        if ($addOption & EXIF_ITEM_SUMMARY) {
            $currentItems[$i]->setSummary($itemDescription);
        }
        if ($addOption & EXIF_ITEM_DESCRIPTION) {
            $currentItems[$i]->setDescription($itemDescription);
        }
    }

to this:

    if (!empty($itemDescription)) {
        if ($addOption & EXIF_ITEM_SUMMARY) {
            $currentItems[$i]->setSummary($itemDescription);
        }
        if ($addOption & EXIF_ITEM_DESCRIPTION) {
            $currentItems[$i]->setDescription($itemDescription);
        }
        /* Always copy item description into title - SP */
        $currentItems[$i]->setTitle($itemDescription);
    }

This is very much a quick and dirty solution, but it works for me. Hopefully someone will do it properly one day