Photos from iphone 4 to iphoto on macbook

not sure if i should post this on macbook or iphone site.
i (or a genius at apple) have moved my iphoto library to an external hard drive. my itunes library is on there as well.
whenever i connect my iphone to my macbook to sync, the iphoto icon pops up. sometimes i just close it out, because i don't have new photos i want to sync. but sometimes when i want to sync new photos from my iphone 4, the photo library pops up, but i can't get to the site where i have the option to upload/download new photos from my phone to my library.
how do i get to the site that allows me to download my new photos to the library? sometimes it pops up, sometimes it doesn't.
thanks.

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