Why is iphoto reposting old pics to Facebook?

Since upgrading to Mountain Lion and the most recent iPhoto, there have been several times when iPhoto reposted old pics to Facebook. I do not yet see a pattern. The pics that got reposted were originally among pics I uploaded to Facebook through iPhoto (long ago). Before being reposted, I had "touched" the pics in iPhoto (once I added a keyword, once I exported several pics and all of them got reposted). For none of the pics that got reposted had I gone to the Facebook album section of iPhoto. Rather, I accessed them from the events section.

I was getting this issue, not when adjusting the actual photos i had previously uploaded, but when uploading NEW photos into facebook. It would 're-send' an existing event to facebook and gum up everyones news feed with what i was doing 6 months ago, followed by my new event
any ideas on what might be causing this?

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