IPhoto import to A3 - Faces is now Shoulders or Elbows??

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After importing my iPhoto library, I noticed that my Faces are no longer Faces, but Elbows, Shoulders, Tummies, Etc......
Now, I can't see some of my Faces and it wants me to name Hands, Sky and Tummies?? Anyone else have this issue with your iPhoto import.
What I've tried so far:
1)I deleted everything and imported again (same issue).
2)I created a new Admin user, created a new A3 library and put it on a different drive, then imported my iPhoto library again (same issue)
3)The issue is happening to the same people each time.
4)I repaired Permissions from System Disk
5)I ran Disk Repair from System Disk
6)No....I did not wipe out my computer and do a fresh install of the OS. Why does everyone have to do this? And if this is done, if you port over all your programs and settings from Time Machine, aren't you just porting over all the same issues. So to keep from porting your issues, you have to painstakingly reinstall ALL your software? Sorry, but NO, that is just too much work. I'm not retired.....yet.
I did a search and couldn't find anyone with this issue.
Narvon

I'm seeing the same thing with some of my photos. Certainly not all of them, though. What I've been doing is removing those shots from the grouping of a certain person, and ignoring them when it shows them to me as an unnamed face. It seems the offset within the photo got mangled, somehow, as the person in question is in the photos with this problem (I can tell by distinctive clothing, sometime). I've wondered if it might be related to cropped photos, with the face box position calculated from the origin of the original photo or the crop, and Aperture getting confused over which to use.
I haven't yet found the "not a face" and "add a face" method in Aperture, that iPhoto has, but I haven't really looked for it, yet, either.

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