Portrait Photos squashed in iPhoto'08

I have had this problem in iPhoto '08 since the start and it doesn't appear to be closer to being fixed even after the past few updates. Alot of my portrait photos are being displayed as if they had the same height as landscape photo which means the photo is completely distorted and squashed! Is this something i can fix or is it a bug in iPhoto?

oh i never knew you could do that and that it gave you so many options.. it's madness. cheers for that! I'm running it at the moment so it's going to take a while but i'll get back if it works! cheers!

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