Blurry images in iPhoto 11

Since installing iPhoto 11 on mac book pro my images appear blurred when in preview/edit mode. They are fine as soon as you vier them in full screen, but the initial view to edit is blurred. Anyone know if there is a way to fix this?

I think this has been around since iPhoto 4.
You might be able to work around the problem by zooming in just a tiny bit using the zoom slider at the bottom left. You'll notice that when you click the button, it blurs and clears a bit when you left go but will stay blurry if you slide all the way to the left. At least on my box, anyway.
You can also toggle between "info" and "edit" to see what things really look like but it's quite annoying.

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