Orientation while cropping photos (landscape and portrait).

When cropping a photo, how can I change the orientation of the crop box? In other words, if I have a photo that is oriented like a landscape (say 4" tall and 6" wide) and I want to crop toa smaller 4x6, but in a portrait orientation, how can I do this? iPhoto seems to want to keep the crop box oriented the same way as the existing photo. I hope I'm making myself clear.
I have searched the forum for this and unable to answer my question. Thanks for any help you can offer!
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Don't worry, you're not the only one. How would you know that you had to go back to the constrain menu and choose portrait. It's not there until you choose a constrain ratio. It's easy to miss.
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