Editing in Photoshop Elements 6 - not a choice in Preferences

I have both PSE6 and onOne Essentials for iPhoto. When I go to Preferences - General - Edit Photo, only Essentials is listed as an option for editing in an external editor. How do I either add Photoshop Elements to the list or replace Essentials with PSE in the list. Once done, there will be times that I'll want to replace PSE with Essentials.
If there isn't a way to do this, what's the best/easiest/least confusing way to get photos from iPhoto into PSE6 for editing and then getting them back again into iPhoto with all the edits? (I've seen several comments about "bridge", so I know to stay away from it. I'm not that "computer savvy".)
Thanks for any insight you may have.

In the Preferences - General - Edit Photo, click where it says "Essentials" and wait a moment. A Finder window should pop open, allowing you to navigate to your Applications folder and choose PSE6 or any other appropriate application.
There is no way to set 2 different external editors, so you'll just have to use that procedure to switch between PSE6 and Essentials. You can, however, easily switch between using an external editor and using iPhoto without changing the Preferences. To use an external editor as your default, leave it selected in the Preferences. You can edit in iPhoto by clicking the Full Screen Edit icon near the bottom of the iPhoto window. Conversely, you can have iPhoto as your default editor. After choosing the external editor you prefer, switch the Preference setting back to one of the iPhoto options. To use your external editor, right-click (Control-click) and choose "Edit in External Editor" from the contextual menu.
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From: "Barbara B." <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:05:25 -0600
To: Warren Newman <[email protected]>
Subject: Iphoto Editing with Photoshop Elements 9
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>

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Working in iPhoto
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I spoke with application technical support. There appears to be nothing wrong with my copy of iPhoto. However there is no support from Adobe. I waited for over 1.5 hours for chat support several days ago, and finally gave up.

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