Cropping Tool in Elements 8

Having had no previous trouble with the cropping tool, I had just created the cropping area (rectangular) and while I was moving the cursor up to images>crop the shape turned to ellipse. It is still doing it. Any solutions, please?

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    It never really hampers my productivity but this morning I had to crop an ad down to a smaller size and just started thinking of this...
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