Multiple photo issues on Macbook that seem to revolve around iPhoto

Hi I'm having numerous problems when dealing with photo on my laptop and was wondering if anyone might know why.
Here's some info about my software, Max OS X version 10.5.8, Safari 5.0.1, iPhoto '08 version 7.1.5., and my Java software is up to date. I also just ran a software update before posting this and everything is up to date except the MacBook EFI Firmware Update, I haven't been able to complete that update, it fails every time.
So A while back I had a problem with my Macbook where it would not start up, so I took it to a Genius Bar and they archived my files and reinstalled my software and that fixed the problem. When I got back into my Mac I noticed all the software was in the original version so I had to updated everything which I did. However I started having problems when I did stuff with photos.
1. The first problem was uploading pictures to facebook. It was working (not perfectly because it could only handle me uploading 20 pictures or so at a time but still working) then it stopped. I deleted the facebook plugin in on my computer (like facebook told me finder>library>internet plugins>facebook plugin) so I could try to install it again hoping that would fix it, but I haven't been able to install it again because facebook never prompts me to install it again, and facebook still lets me go in and select photos to upload but it can't upload them. If I'm trying to upload photos either through the internet or exporting them to fb through iPhoto, it will let me select the photos but as soon as I click upload (or export) the internet or iPhoto will freeze then quit and I will get a notice telling me it failed because something went wrong with the plugin (screencap: http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg227/mandyb7/Picture22.png). I still no longer have the facebook plugin or the facebook iPhoto exporter app installed on my computer. However now when I try to upload photos to facebook it still doesn't work but the Safari doesn't quit and I get a different message (screencap: http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg227/mandyb7/Picture133.png)
It has been about a month now that I cannot add photos to albums on facebook. However the odd time I have been able to post a photo on my wall, in a message and upload a new profile picture. I can also upload photos to other places on the internet like photobucket, with the exception of twitter. With twitter I cannot upload a new profile picture, it tries and then gives me a page saying twitter is over capacity but apparently that has been happening to a lot of people so I'm not sure if it's related to my computer problems.
2. I cannot import photos from the internet to iPhoto. How I usually do it is ctrl + click and then selecting import to iPhoto and then iPhoto will open but I will get two notices telling me what went wrong.
Screencap of Safari notice: http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg227/mandyb7/Picture136-2.png
Screencap of iPhoto notice: http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg227/mandyb7/Picture137.png
However I can still save photos from the internet onto my Macbook through a different way like adding them to "my downloads".
3. iPhoto cannot export photos to another folder in places like documents and pictures. This is a screencap of when it fails: http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg227/mandyb7/Picture135-1.png - it doesn't go any further than this point so I always click cancel. However if I try to export the same photo to the same place it will tell me that the image is already there and asks me if I want to replace it.
4. I have a FujiFilm FinePix Z20fd camera with FinePixViewer software on my Macbook where I upload the pictures from my camera to. However since my computer was fixed at the genius bar I haven't been able to import any photos from my camera into the FinePixViewer, the program won't even open when I connect my camera to my laptop. In fact none of my photos that I used to have in FinePixViewer are displayed in there anymore, this is what my FinePixViewer now looks like: http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg227/mandyb7/Picture138.png
However the photos and videos are still in their folders in my documents, so I can still access them and haven't lost them. And I can import the photos from my camera into iPhoto.
(I was thinking of uninstalling the FinePixViewer software and then reinstalling it to see if that would help. That wouldn't affect the photos that are still in my documents that I originally imported through FinePixViewer would it?)
5. And the lasted problem I have discovered is that iMovie cannot generate thumbnails of iPhoto videos.
Does anyone know what could be causing these problem or how I can try to solve any of them? Should I take my Macbook back to the genius bar? Thanks!

3. iPhoto cannot export photos to another folder in places like documents and pictures. This is a screencap of when it fails: http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg227/mandyb7/Picture135-1.png - it doesn't go any further than this point so I always click cancel. However if I try to export the same photo to the same place it will tell me that the image is already there and asks me if I want to replace it.
I think this is a bug in the design of the export feature. The problem might be that iPhoto initially sweeps up all your photos from various folders, and often they have similar names like 01.jpg or Mom.jpg, etc. then when it exports, all files are copied into a single folder, and it doesn't have the ability to rename files such as Mom-2.jpg. When I encountered this problem I would get about 90% of the photos exported and then a similar message.
There is then no way to tell what photos were not exported. You could do a sequential export but all the file names might be replaced with sequential numbering.
A possible workaround is to Ctrl click or right click the iPhoto library icon and select the third option: Show Package Contents. If you drag the Originals and Modified folders out of the package to another location, or to an external drive, it should move or copy all your pictures with their individual filenames but in inconvenient multiple dated folders.
It might be a good idea to backup the iPhoto library first as this might disable the iPhoto database, and in case you don't like the results. Also you should first move the old iPhoto library icon to its final storage place if you don't want to trash it, such as into a folder named old iPhoto library, becasue it won't move after pulling its files. If you want to keep using iPhoto as it is, you should just copy the above two folders and replace the originals where you found them.

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