Aperture Faces/Facebook Tag Syncing Broken

I hope someone here can help me.
I just published a bunch of photos to facebook using the Aperture "Facebook" share feature. I also had been sure that all my "faces" were tagged before doing so in order to save me time tagging all the photos through facebook.
The only problem is it didn't work. For half the people it did indeed tag them with the names of the "faces" but it wasn't linked to any particular Facebook account. That being said, some of the faces randomly DID work.
How exactly do I go about changing that? The Aperture help mentions you can setup the face's Facebook ID from the faces tab in aperture but doesn't explain how to do so.
I thought perhaps it had to do with the email addresses not being correct so I've switched those but so far it hasn't fixed anything - maybe it only works for new uploads and can't re-sync and fix old ones?
The weird part is, two of the faces that tagged just fine have no email specified. The ones that did have emails specified DIDN'T sync to their facebook profiles...
This is all very confusing...

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