diff --git a/python/morpheus/morpheus/_lib/src/messages/multi.cpp b/python/morpheus/morpheus/_lib/src/messages/multi.cpp
index 72fddfa8ec..4ca7f5d839 100644
--- a/python/morpheus/morpheus/_lib/src/messages/multi.cpp
+++ b/python/morpheus/morpheus/_lib/src/messages/multi.cpp
@@ -396,17 +396,7 @@ void MultiMessageInterfaceProxy::set_meta(MultiMessage& self, pybind11::object c
             saved_index = py::none();
         }
 
-        // Perform the update via slices
-        auto is_string_dtype = pybind11::module_::import("cudf.api.types").attr("is_string_dtype");
-        auto series = pybind11::module_::import("cudf").attr("Series");
-
-        if (is_string_dtype(series(value)).cast<bool>()) {
-            df[columns] = pybind11::str();
-            df[columns].attr("iloc")[row_indexer] = value;
-        } else {
-            df.attr("loc")[pybind11::make_tuple(df.attr("index")[row_indexer], columns)] = value;
-        }
-
+        df.attr("loc")[pybind11::make_tuple(df.attr("index")[row_indexer], columns)] = value;
 
         // Reset the index if we changed it
         if (!saved_index.is_none())
diff --git a/python/morpheus/morpheus/messages/multi_message.py b/python/morpheus/morpheus/messages/multi_message.py
index eb8f1863bf..44e1bb6cba 100644
--- a/python/morpheus/morpheus/messages/multi_message.py
+++ b/python/morpheus/morpheus/messages/multi_message.py
@@ -291,16 +291,7 @@ def set_meta(self, columns: typing.Union[None, str, typing.List[str]], value):
 
                     saved_index = df.index
                     df.reset_index(drop=True, inplace=True)
-
-                    # TODO: when value is strings, make all values empty strings
-                    from cudf.api.types import is_string_dtype
-
-                    if is_string_dtype(cudf.Series(value)):
-                        df[columns] = ""
-                        df[columns].iloc[row_indexer] = value
-                    else:
-                        df.loc[df.index[row_indexer], columns] = value
-
+                    df.loc[df.index[row_indexer], columns] = value
                     df.set_index(saved_index, inplace=True)
                 else:
                     # Need to determine the boolean mask to use indexes with df.loc
diff --git a/python/morpheus/morpheus/parsers/ip.py b/python/morpheus/morpheus/parsers/ip.py
index 706e1fe959..1fcb75ee81 100644
--- a/python/morpheus/morpheus/parsers/ip.py
+++ b/python/morpheus/morpheus/parsers/ip.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def ip_to_int(values):
     >>> ip.ip_to_int(cudf.Series(["192.168.0.1","10.0.0.1"]))
     0    3232235521
     1    167772161
-    dtype: int64
+    dtype: uint32
     """
     return values.str.ip2int()
 
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ def int_to_ip(values):
     Parameters
     ----------
     values : cudf.Series
-        Integer representations of IP addresses
+        uint32 representations of IP addresses
 
     Returns
     -------
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ def int_to_ip(values):
     --------
     >>> import morpheus.parsers.ip as ip
     >>> import cudf
-    >>> ip.int_to_ip(cudf.Series([3232235521, 167772161]))
+    >>> ip.int_to_ip(cudf.Series([3232235521, 167772161], dtype=cudf.api.types.dtype("uint32")))
     0    192.168.0.1
     1    10.0.0.1
     dtype: object
diff --git a/python/morpheus/morpheus/stages/postprocess/generate_viz_frames_stage.py b/python/morpheus/morpheus/stages/postprocess/generate_viz_frames_stage.py
index b2d059666c..ffab467541 100644
--- a/python/morpheus/morpheus/stages/postprocess/generate_viz_frames_stage.py
+++ b/python/morpheus/morpheus/stages/postprocess/generate_viz_frames_stage.py
@@ -294,8 +294,8 @@ def write_batch(x: MultiResponseMessage | ControlMessage):
                 out_df = cudf.DataFrame()
 
                 out_df["dt"] = (df["timestamp"] - time0).astype(np.int32)
-                out_df["src"] = df["src_ip"].str.ip_to_int().astype(np.int32)
-                out_df["dst"] = df["dest_ip"].str.ip_to_int().astype(np.int32)
+                out_df["src"] = df["src_ip"].str.ip_to_int().astype(np.uint32)
+                out_df["dst"] = df["dest_ip"].str.ip_to_int().astype(np.uint32)
                 out_df["lvl"] = df["secret_keys"].astype(np.int32)
                 out_df["data"] = df["data"]
 
diff --git a/tests/test_multi_message.py b/tests/test_multi_message.py
index 73d06adfa4..26e349e10d 100644
--- a/tests/test_multi_message.py
+++ b/tests/test_multi_message.py
@@ -266,28 +266,10 @@ def test_set_meta_issue_286(filter_probs_df: cudf.DataFrame, use_series: bool):
     if use_series:
         values = cudf.Series(values)
 
-    import cupy
-
-    # hey = values[5:10].to_cupy()
-
     mm1.set_meta('letters', values[0:5])
     mm2.set_meta('letters', values[5:10])
 
 
-# def test_something(filter_probs_df: cudf.DataFrame):
-
-#     values = list(string.ascii_letters)
-
-#     values = 
-
-#     import cupy
-
-#     cupy.asarray(cudf.Series(list(string.ascii_letters)))
-
-#     # mm1.set_meta('letters', values[0:5])
-#     # mm2.set_meta('letters', values[5:10])
-
-
 def _test_copy_ranges(df: typing.Union[cudf.DataFrame, pd.DataFrame]):
     meta = MessageMeta(df)