Photobooth, iPhoto and facebook

I recently got a macbook pro and don't know how to use everything yet.
When I try to upload pictures from the photobooth folder to facebook, for some reason pictures I took recently don't show up in the uploader. They are still in photobooth but I can't see the ones I took yesterday in the uploader. I thought I could fix this by moving them to iPhoto and uploading to facebook from there but I don't know how to move more than one at a time. Also, the pictures that are 4 in one (I don't know what they're called) go to iPhoto only as the first frame. Is there a way to move many pictures at once from photobooth to iPhoto and get the 4-in-1 pictures to transfer all 4 frames? Or is there a reason my new photobooth pictures don't show up in the facebook uploader?

HI,
You need the Facebook iPhoto Exporter available here.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2238752371
Here are some links that may be helpful also.
Mac 101
Anatomy of a Mac - Fint Out How Basics
Carolyn

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