IPhoto - Facebook Faces Problem

I'm having issues with Facebook and iPhoto Faces integration.  Here is what is happening:  I go through my pictures in iPhoto and tag Faces.  Then I upload the pictures through iPhoto to Facebook.  But if I've tagged a Face of an individual in iPhoto who does not have a Facebook account, the next time I go back into that event/album in iPhoto, it has automatically retagged that person as "Is this firstname lastname?" where the firstname lastname is the first person (alphabetically) in my iPhoto Faces list.  I then have to go back into iPhoto and re-tag those Faces in each event/album I've uploaded to Facebook (again this only affects Faces of individuals who doe not have FB accounts).  But, to finalize and correct the problem, I have to go back through each event/album a THIRD time, because now everyone who does not have a FB account who I've re-tagged after uploading to FB, will be tagged as "Is this firstname lastname?"  After I've answered yes to each of those suggested Faces it seems to fix the priblem permanently.
Is this an iPhoto bug or a Facebook issue?  Does anyone have any suggestion on how to fix this or should I just send feedback to Apple?
Thanks for your help.

I've not seen this reported here so I suspect it is a specific issue with your system - Try renewing your iPhoto preference file -
A good general step for strange issues is to renew the iPhoto preference file - quit iPhoto and go to "your user name" ==> library ==> preferences ==> com.apple.iPhoto.plist and trash it - launch iPhoto which creates a fresh new default preference file and reset any personal preferences you have changed and if you have moved the iPhoto library repoint to it. This may help
This does not affect your photos or any database information (keywords, faces, places, ratings, etc) in any way - they are stored in the iPhoto library - the iPhoto preference file simply controls how iPhoto works - which is why renewing it is a good first step.
LN 

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