IPhoto '11 - Faces issues

Hi all, I've got some Faces issues:
When i select a name in "Faces", sometimes at the bottom appears a bar with written "Xyz Zyx may be in x additional photos".
If i press the "Confirm Additional Faces..." button I can reject the photos, but not confirm them: in fact if I confirm a photo and i press "Done", it remains in the "Unconfirmed Faces" section.
More, I've found that in portrait photos the "Add a face" function is not well working: if I add a big face tag, especially in close ups of faces where the face tag is occupying 75-85 % of the photo, the face tag resizes or disappears when I view the photo a second time.
How can I solve these?
Thank you very much.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Regarding the locations see my post HERE.
Can't help you with faces as I don't use that feature.
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