Iphoto slideshow stretching vertical photos

ARGH! I hope someone can help me. I'm creating a slideshow for my daughter's bday and it has about 285 photos in it currently, a good mix of horizontal and vertical. There are about 20 vertical photos that are appearing stretched horizontally when viewed in slideshow mode. There are many more verticals that this is not happening to.
I edited (rotated) them in Photoshop and saved them, as I did for every vertical photo in the album. They are not rotated in iphoto. When I do rotate them in iphoto (just for troubleshooting), they are still stretched, just now rotated incorrectly.
Can anyone tell me why this is happening, especially to SOME and not ALL?
Thanks in advance!

Which version of iPhoto?
I've run into unexpected things when editing iPhotos w something external to iPhoto. I think the problem has to do with the way iPhoto stores photos - basically an original and then one with any changes made to it.
Try this: Put a copy of all of your Photoshop-edited photos in a folder on your hard drive outside of iPhoto. Then delete the problemmatic vertical photos from your iPhoto Library.
Then import your Photoshop edited vertical photos as if they wer enew photos.

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