SOLUTION
.and then my rant...
SOLUTION:
I installed Dropbox on the iPhone, and then went into dropbox, and selected Upload. It then threw me into the albums I wanted to upload. I had to check each individual photo, and then wait for Dropbox to sync via WiFi. After it did
I then went to the Mac and moved the photos/videos from my Dropbox folder into a folder offline.
(now stop here, unless you want to read my rant)
VIOLA!!! I am now thinking WHY is there not a straightforward solution from Apple support, and WHY do people ignore the need to accomplish this task????
There SHOULD be a way to do this using iTunes or a Mac computer. I am very disappointed at all the apple support forums where administrators are posting their opinions as to "why Apple/Itunes made it this way". Typical IT support snobbishness
always questioning "how come you want to do it that way
you should be doing it this way, blah blah blah". Take my example, and start to help by answering the user's questions and quit trying to defend the illogical nature of something.
This is another reason I am a major promoter of PC, and heavily against any deployment of Macs. Although I love the iPhone because of its stability, iPhone users tend to use Macs
and I am in a working environment where there are so many people who want to use Mac instead of PC. I use a Mac every day to evaluate it from a support perspective, and I have detailed lengthy notes on the problems with using a Mac in the PC environment but nobody cares
because users don't care about knowing how a computer works. I am going to post this in the Apple support pages as well. I do want to thank everybody here for offering app solutions. Unfortunately, after trying some of these solutions, I was left with a lot of crap on my computers (Mac and PC) that I had to clean up and then reevaluate the tools I have access to. Dropbox was the winner.