Address book: can't select iPhoto faces

Supposedly, I can double click the picture in a contact in address book, then click the Faces icon at the bottom left to browse from my iPhoto library.
However, in my address book, that icon is always greyed out.
Any ideas why that might be?
Regards,
Gabriel.

I have wasted time on this. It works for some faces, not others. I get some faces into Mail, not others. This seems to be yet another glitch in Lion (like my wretched mouse which has, yet again, disconnected for the second time during this message. It would help if Apple would say something about these problems, even if its just "hello").

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