Un-'Locking' multiple files in multiple folders....

So I just spent 2 hours at the 'Genius' bar manually 'unlocking' hundreds if not thousands of photos in my 'iPhoto' (05) library in order to upgrade to iPhoto '06... apparently, when I imported some pictures from Windows... it brought them in as 'locked' (i.e. when you 'get info...' on a file, and it has the 'Locked' check-box checked), well apparently, in order to upgrade to iPhoto '06, you have to 'unlock' every single file... given the way that iPhoto stores your files, if you've got a few locked, scattered throughout your library, it's going to take a LONG time to find them all and unlock them.
My question for the Mac OS X specialists at large is, "Is there a way to un-lock multiple files in multiple directories and folders, WITHOUT doing it manually? I can't believe I actually sat at a genius bar and did this for TWO hours. According to my Genius, that was the only way to do it. Are there any other Genius' out there that may have a differing opinion? Keep in mind, he was one of 2 or 3 native english speakers (here in the very busy Shibuya, Tokyo store) any solutions would be appreciated, because it appears I've got multiple files in my MacBook iPhoto library that are 'locked' and I'd like to find an easier way to unlock them.
FYI, we went to finder and searched for 'other' "Files Write Protected" etc., but we were never able to find ONLY files that are locked... is there a better way? Surely there has to be. Looking forward to learning something new.
Hal W.
Tokyo, Japan
Mac Mini, MacBook 13.3" Mac OS X (10.4.7)

There's also a Terminal command that will work:
Launch Terminal from your utilities folder, and enter this command:
find /Users/yourname/Pictures/"iPhoto Library"/ -flags uchg -exec chflags nouchg {} \;
Be sure you get the "spaces" right, including the ones before and after the curly braces--{}--and there is no space between \; and it should work just fine. You may want to just copy and paste the above into a text program, fill in your short user name, then copy and paste into Terminal. And it must be all one line. After you've entered the command, hit the Return key to execute it. It will look in your iPhoto Library folders for all files that have the locked flag, then change the flag to unlocked.
Francine
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