PSE 11 on a Mac questions

I've been using PSE 6 and 10 without problems. I just upgraded to 11, and there are two things that don't work anymore. I use PSE for making scrapbooking layouts (if that makes a difference). I have a MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion, iPhoto '11, and PSE 11.
1) I can no longer Close All (it shows up as active, but it will only close the items in the work space, not the items in the Photobin). In the past, when I finished working on a page, I'd click File> Close All to clear out my all of the open files before starting on a new layout. I can still close them individually, or I can command-click several and close them after selecting them. But I always loved being able to click Close All, and see all of my open photos/png files close down quickly. Is there a preference or setting that I need to change?
2) I am having trouble importing photos into PSE 11. Usually, I select multiple photos from iPhoto, and drag and drop them to the PSE icon on my dock. Now only some of the photos will open (for example, I drag 8 photos, but only 5 of them show up in my PSE workspace).
Both of these things used to work on PSE 6 and 10 (and still do in 10), so I'm wondering if PSE 11 lost some functionality, if this is a known bug, or if I'm doing something wrong.
TIA,
Lori

Just option clicking the tab of the active image should close them all. If it doesn't, go to the editor prefs, click the reset preferences button and restart the editor.
The iphoto thing amazes me, since iphoto itself has always had a limit on either four or five photos at once to any place outside iphoto, so I totally don't understand how you were ever able to do that.

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From: [email protected]
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Subject: PSE 6 on Mac Book Pro Crashes when opening a picture
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