Lost File Association

This may be a Finder question, but I'm only having this issue with iPhoto.
When I double-click on my jpg files they open in Preview. That's fine as I don't really want to load iPhoto each time I want to take a quick look at a jpg. However, when I CTRL+Click and get the context menu, iPhoto isn't listed as an application that's associated with the file type. I have to manually hunt for iPhoto and then open it. I don't want iPhoto to be the default application for jpg files, but I'd like to have it show in the contextual menu. Any ideas on how to do this?
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iPhoto is not a photo viewer but a photo manager - to view photos in iPhoto then must be imported to iPhoto first - for the photos you want in iPhoto just drag them to the iPhoto icon in the DOCK to import them

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