Focus points Aperture 3.0.3 not correctly shown

Hi,
When I press the Alt-F key-combination the focus points are shown in the image. But for some reason they are off. I took some pictures where I'm sure I used the center focuspoint, but in Aperture they show up as the far right focuspoint.
Is this a known issue ?
Grtx,
Remco

Remco - this is NOT an explanation or answer to your question (sorry), but I sometimes see the focus point highlighted in RED, other times it is highlighted in WHITE...I have 12 focus points in the VF and the display normally shows the correct one (as I remember), but as described, the selected point varies in color...I don't understand this and wonder if that part of the metadata handling is buggy...I've also noticed that sometimes metadata values are reported as scientific notation (2.3 x E*some value), other times as ordinal numbers (the correct way)..makes me suspicious of ALL of the metadata info presented.
Sorry I couldn't help but only corroborate and commiserate...maybe someone from Apple will see this and look into the problems.
cheers,
david

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