Crop confusion

I've just set out to crop photos in an event, but even photos I haven't cropped have a crop applied to them!
The crop box seems to be set to the size of the original image eg 2048x1536 (or is it the aspect ratio thereof?), but the crop box does not surround the whole image more like 85% of it - this is on all images I haven't even cropped!
Sometimes revert to original works, sometimes not.
This is bizarre!
AC

Hi Beverley
Yes, thanks, I was kind of aware of that, the iPhoto help says:
If you don’t like a change you’ve made to a photo, you can undo your most recent change by choosing Edit > Undo. For photos edited in iPhoto ’08, you can also change the crop at any time without losing your other edits, simply by opening the photo in Edit view and clicking the Crop button.
So, it would seem that the crop is applied as the last step after any other edits to the original which is a nice touch.
However, again the side effect seems to be this arbitrary crop on images you don't want to crop.
It's much more tedious to drag the box back to original size, and revert to original doesn't always stick for me which is odd.
This new iLife suite seems full of oddities. Seems to me this crop behaviour is exactly what you want if say going through a load of images and wanting to crop 4:3 pics to 3:2 as you'd probably just move/resize the box for the next photo, but it does not help if you may or may not do freehand crops on a series of images.
AC

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