Selecting Multiple things

I just recently purchased the Snow Leopard upgrade. The installation appeared to go fine. But, now I can't select multiple files and open them.
Like, I have files of pictures. I then select a large group of them and click to open, figuring that they will all open in the same preview window. They don't. I have to open each and every file individually. I can't take a whole selection an just open.
Does any one know how to fix this problem?
P.S. sorry if this seems to be in the wrong section. Wasn't too sure which category this came under.

dbsneddon wrote:
Rather than selecting in Finder then trying to open, open Preview
and select them within Preview... this appears to be an issue with
Finder rather than Preview and is related to the file quarantining
"feature" (as reported in a number of other threads about this
issue -- it has been reported to Apple).
Dave
hey, that appears to be correct! the problem only appears when some of the files being opened have com.apple.quarantine extended attribute. after the attribute is removed they open as they should. I would still consider it to be a Preview bug rather than a Finder bug though.

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