Description unwittingly added to all photos in an event

There appears to be a bug in iPhoto version 9.3 when using the "Show Captions" with "Descriptions".
The faciltiy seems to work OK for the most part and can give a useful descriptive text over photos during a slide show.
But, I found that on some occasions, when amending a single description, that the text was added to ALL the photos in the event. (Where a description was already present the new text was appended to it.) This is extremely annoying because it is time-consuming to then have to go through all your photos in the event and remove the unwanted text.
Although it happened to me on two occassions, I have not been able to determine the exact sequence of operations that causes it.
I guess it might be there as a "feature", but if so it should surely be associated with a warning.
If you have experienced the same problem and know how it occurs, it would be worth reporting to Apple.
In the meantime, people who use this feature should be wary. I feel I don't want to use it again until the bug is fixed.

You may have inadvertantly selected all of the photos in the event and made the change to the description. Or possibly by clicking on the event itself and using the Batch Change menu.  
Create a test event with some test photos and see if you can reproduce the problem.  I don't think it's a bug as you're the first to report it as I can recall.
OT

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