IPhoto import: Faces being tagged only on ORIGINAL photo in Aperture

Hi there,
New to Aperture. Hoping to migrate from iPhoto.
One thing I noticed on my original import from iPhoto...
The Face tags that carry over from iPhoto are only attached to the ORIGINAL photo in iPhoto. So in cases where I've enhanced, rotated, or cropped an image before tagging faces in it in iPhoto, the tags show up on the WRONG photo in Aperture. Strangely, they show up in the part of the photo where they're tagged on the edited version.
Anyone have this trouble? Any fixes?

Dear Terence,
thank you very much for your answer, although it reflects what I was hoping to be not true.
It is very annoying that the import / export functions between iPhoto and Aperture are not mature enough to include relevant EXIF information. I do not know if you are an Apple employee - if not, you are not the right addressee, of course - but it would be fine if Apple considered closing that gap. I do not see any good reason why existing information is ignored and must be hard-written to the files or kept redundant. It neither makes any sense from the software architecture point of view nor keeping the user's requirements in mind.
Considering your tips, I have a few additional questions:
1. Is there any way to automate tagging of pictures using the information available in Faces? I have about 175 recognized faces (could be more than 500, if I was motivated enough) in my library and tagging manually would be very time consuming. As fas as I understand iPhoto, I have to select all pictures linked to a person, Cmd+A, tag - 175 times!?
2. You say that I can export event by event or album by album - yes, I can do that manually. But what I do in the all pictures view is Cmd+A, Export, JPEG, Original Size, Original Filenames, write additional information to files, end of story. After 4-5 hours, I have all my pictures in one folder which Aperture imports to exactly one project. Well, maybe I missed something, but please tell me how I get iPhoto to export each event to one folder with just one click, making Aperture capable to interpret those folders as albums while importing.
Thank you very much...! Well, if 1. and 2. are not possible, Apple's developers should really know what Aperture 2.5 or 3.0 should look like.
Regards
Steffen
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