Cropping and the snap to grid?

When cropping my crop area (square/rectangle/what-have-you) is always snapping to some sort of invisible grid. Is this just how Lr4 works or is there a setting I have settup incorrectly?
And also, When I crop an image I have to move the image into the cropping "square" and cut of a portion of the photo but it's only part of the image I want cropped. And when I do have the image I press "return" and the image appears to be cropped until I go to crop more of the image. Suddenly I'm left back at the state before the previous crop. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks! (I hope this makes sense)

When you are satisfied, you either hit the <enter> key or click on "close" on the crop-panel. It is the bottom of the crop panel, but that is still high on the right-hand panel.
I do not find a "done" in my LR4.0.
...as I am more of a keyboard-guy than mouse-guy I always have to take a look to answer.
<esc> is the shortest way to abandon the crop endeavour and return to where you started invoking the crop (which could be library module if you used the R key).
To my knowledge you can only crop in rectangular way. You have different overlays to guide your decision-making (like spiral etc. - toggle with O key), but the result will always be some rectangle, which can be square, of course.
If you open the padlock you are free to drag the ratio, or you could choose from the drop-down menu "Aspect" one of the presets or enter your own dimensions. LR will recalculate them, though and display maybe different.
So circular is not possible.
For circular you could employ a trick e.g. in Print module: create a watermark or identity plate with circular opening, opaque for the rest.

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