Portrait (vertical) photos blurry in iPhoto (except when rotated landscape)

In iPhoto '09 with my Canon G11, all portrait (vertical) photos appear blurry. When these same photos are viewed in Preview or rotated to lie on their side in iPhoto however they are fine. This is a huge problem as I just got back from a long trip where I deleted all blurry vertical photos for the first few weeks thinking it was a problem with my camera (the lens has a scratch on it that I believed might be affecting focus on vertical shots) until I did some testing and realised it was iPhoto that was at fault and the photos were perfectly fine.
Is there any way to get iPhoto to display those photos correctly (I have tried various full screen and zooming modes to no avail, and there seems to be no smoothing setting in iPhoto preferences) so that I can at least look at them and use them in a slideshow, without having to open every single vertical photo separately in another editor?

I've just discovered a similar issue, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with vertical or horizontal. At least it is still happening when I turn photos sideways.
To be very clear here
1) This is not a thumbnail issue, these are the original files taken from my camera minutes ago.
2) This is not initial blurriness while the photo loads.
3) I only notice it in full screen (edit) mode because it's actually quite subtle.
4) Photos display correctly (sharp) when you zoom in a little, but return to blurry when you zoom back out.
5) Appears to be random, with one nearly identical shot being crisp and the next appears blurry, but the affect seems to be specific to particular images (e.g. it doesn't come and go randomly regardless of which pictures you happen to be looking at. If a photo is blurry, it will stay that way even if you've closed iPhoto and reopened it).
6) Photos are from a Nikon D5000
Any suggestions? This is a ridiculous hassle as the OP mentioned, and is completely unacceptable in any photo editing/browsing software.

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