Adjustment Brush Weirdness in LR2

I'm making pretty liberal use of the adjustment brush in a series of photos in LR2, and I'm getting the weirdest thing: as I leaf through my gallery and make these adjustments, then go back and view previously adjusted images, I'm getting a whole lot of retouched areas showing up in images THAT I DID NOT PUT THERE. This is the weirdest thing. The Adjustment brush mask shows lots of random spots where it looks like the adjustment brush has been used, but I didn't put them there. And they keep showing up in different images. It's getting kind of ridiculous because they keep showing up in random images without my putting them there, and it's wasting a lot of my time. Has anybody experienced this?

Two possibilites for this happening. The first is that you haved had multiple images selected and applied the Sync Settings command. Alternatively, you have had multiple images selected and Auto Sync enabled while applying the brush with th result that every selected image will have the brush adjustment applied. I suggest you select a few images in Develop module then go to the two buttons located at the bottom of the Develop adjustments panel. If the left button is set to Auto Sync then this is very likley the source of your problem. I suggest that you switch it off to avoid the problem reoccuring. With Lr2 you need to hold down the Ctrl/Cmd key while clicking on the button

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