Frame fitting options in object styles

We are producing multiple pages using tagged templates and importing xml - to populate both text and images.
Back in CS3 - our object styles using frame fitting worked perfectly. Since we have upgraded to CS5 and now CS6 - when xml is imported the frame fitting element of our object styles are no longer being honoured - when clicking on the object frame, it shows the style has been applied but with overrides - and it is adding random offsets to the frame fitting crop settings.
We are producing large numbers of pages through xml automation, therefore it's very time consuming to open every page and clear overrides/reset frame fitting on every affected graphic.
I've seen on other questions/forums that this may be a known bug - anyone have any up-to-date info on fixes or workarounds?
Thanks for your help :-)

Hello,
We have a free startup script that clears the overrides after a place action.
http://www.kerntiff.co.uk/free-stuff/afterplaceobjectreseter
P.

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