Aperture 3.0.3 Adjustments & Cropping Tool Bugs

I don't know if 3.0.3 actually did any good, but it did some harm for sure. Many times when I go to make adjustments, the entire adjustment pane is blank. Restarting Aperture brings it back, but this is rather annoying since it never happened before. Also, the crop tool has bugs. Sometimes when I crop an image, the entire image disappears from my project. Again, when I restart Aperture the image comes back. Another issue I'm having with crop is if I set it to say 8x10 and pull on a corner, it allows free movement like "custom" used to, and will not stay 8x10. At the same time, "custom" only pulls symmetrically and does not allow custom cropping unless I enter numerical values. Now that I've just shot a large family reunion and have hundreds of images to process, this is a real PITA. Thanks again Apple for a real half-assed update.

Thank God experienced users are having this problem! I have only just upgraded from iPhoto straight to Aperture 3 in the last fortnight and I thought I was doing something wrong with the crop function?! Also why isn't there a 'done' or 'apply' button for crop??? Is simply closing the crop box the applying?
Totally Confused Newbie
PS also app goes into a loop when I try to import from iPhoto, won't let me stop import or quit or even quit Aperture.
PPS why are a lot of my imported (from installation I automatically imported my iPhoto library) pics upside down???
not happy

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