My adobe lightroom 4 is automatically editing my pictures, badly..???

I've had lightroom 4 for about a year or more now and a couple months ago it stared automatically editing my pictures after i exported them onto my computer, but when i opened up lightroom and viewed them, they were brightened a lot, and cropped in weird ways like half the picture was gone. And then a couple days ago my pictures automatically turned black and white when i imported them and before i even touched them. I tried uninstalling adobe and reinstalling but it just went back to the way it was. Help??? I need this for work and i really need to know how to fix this.

One other thing In your Lightroom Preferences > Presets tab> Default Develop Settings> make sure you do not have "Apply auto tone adjustments" selected.
In my experience having this selected is an "adventure into the unknown" to say the least.
You have no opportunity to see what the default lightroom settings; your camera default settings; or other presets produce,
The way I use this feature is on individual images, select auto tone, if it works for me fine, if it does not "edit/undo". If I have a couple of images that follow that I can copy to I use the sync feature.

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