Cropped photo alias opens original uncropped photo.

Hi All,
Recently I cropped 9 photos in iPhoto, did share>export to a folder on the desktop and proceeded to burn a CD in the Finder so I could take it in to have prints made. The problems began when I dragged the exported photos onto the blank CD icon. As expected 9 aliases were created but when I burned the disc one of the pictures was the original uncropped one. All the other 8 photos were also cropped from originals in iPhoto and those aliases all burned the cropped photos as would be expected. When I went back to the aliases I dumped onto the CD icon and opened them the one that didn't burn right opened the original uncropped photo.
I have also tried dragging the errant cropped photo from iPhoto to the desktop and what magically appears there is the original uncropped photo.
I've been using Macs for over 8 years and never have I seen where an alias points to a file other than the one from which it was created and I have no idea what is going on. Any ideas? Thanks.
Frog
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Sounds like a question for Photoshop forum to me, that being their malarkey. Any chance it's defaulting to save as a psd?

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