Aperture 3 Export Watermarks Broken?

I've upgraded to Aperture 3 and I have re-added the watermarks that I used to use under Aperture 2 to the export presets. The watermarks that I have built are sized to fit into the lower right corner (i.e., 128 x 128 for a 2048 x 2048 export). When using those watermarks, they appear to be scaled up to the size of the photo (instead of just overlaid in the lower right 128 x 128 pixels). If I turn on "Scale watermark, the watermark comes out smaller but still about double size (i.e., about 256 x 256).
Is anyone else having this problem? Should I be creating a 2048 x 2048 watermark to get the scaling correct? Is export watermarking broken in Aperture 3?

yes it definitely seems broken. i have a PSD file that is my watermark with just the text "(c) scott nichol * www.silverystars.com" and its about 500 pixels wide. when i export for the web its usually an 800-1000 pixel wide image and the water mark is pinned to the lower right or left hand corers. if i leave "scaling" off, that 500-pixel wide watermark image is stretched across the entire bottom of the image. if i turn scaling on, its scaled down to an almost micro text size that's barely readable. and it doesn't matter how wide i make the image, it gets scaled down to the same size.
my work-around for now is to keep the text in the PSD document the same size and extend the canvas so there's about 700 pixels of padding to the left of the text. now if i leave scaling off it fits that 1200-pixel wide image into the bottom of the image. and since the exports are only 800-1000 pixels wide, the watermark is about as big as it was before.
clearly this is a bug and this can work for me in the short term.
scott

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