IPhoto not exporting photos properly

iPhoto 9.4.2.
When I try to export photos with the 'export' feature, some come out wrong. Sometimes the photo is almost cut in half, with one half filtered and skewed. Other times the photo is cut with a grey background across it.
Tried exporting to multiple formats, different quality settings and several times. I've been able to do this successfully in the past.
Thanks in advance.

I have the same problem: occurs randomly but often. I have just exported a dozen images, three images have the upper left quarter of the exported image about 50% lighter than the rest of the picture. Other times there will be a square somewhere in the picture a different shade, other times it is stripes.
If I look at the pictures in iphoto, they appear normal.
I could not try your fix because the problerm is random. I did open a new library to see what happened.
Just one problem: how do I get my old library back when I open iphoto.

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