Preview - multi select with instant alpha? Possible

Hi,
I have an image that is non-contiguous. I want to crop it out of its white background. I used instant alpha to select the solid black image. But there are two of them and I want them both to stay apart of one another. I tried "command" selecting the second one, but it seems to be an either/or situation. How do I get both solid black images at the same time. How would I get 3 or 4 or 5? Like if I wanted to take off big block text from a white background. I tried selecting the white background, but then the islands of white inside of D and P and B etc don't get selected. I know there's a way to do this, isn't there?
Much thanks!

Thanks Topher. I guess the point was that Preview used to do it (at least in Leopard, I skipped Snow and am new to Lion) and I was wondering if they had just hidden the feature under new key combinations or some checkbox I needed to tick, but I couldn't find anything (or rather, Google couldn't find anything).
It was nice to be able to open a PNG and quickly make it transparent without waiting for Photoshop to load, although now that my MacBook has a SSD that point is pretty moot.

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