Preview won't rotate Pics...

Hi guys,
I've put up with this ever since I got my MacBook, and it's now starting to get VERY irritating.
Whenever I open a photo in preview, and it's at the wrong angle, I click rotate, all is fine. I then save it.
HOWEVER, when I come to do doing things like opening the photo in a keynote, or uploading it to myspace, it is back to it's original position.
How do I get round this?
Many Thanks
Tom

For more information on how Preview is supposed to work, and a bug that appeared after 10.4.9 update on some machines, see this discussion:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1111412&start=0&tstart=0
Early on some alternate programs are suggested, you might try them out.
What it is supposed to do is add a metadata entry to a file when you rotate and save the file. Programs that understand the rotation tag will then display the rotation, programs that don't, such as browsers, don't display a rotation. No pixels are injured with this method, which means the file hasn't been "really" altered. Unfortunately a bug got introduced where Preview will not write the tag for jpeg files. It sounds like what you want is to actually rotate file, to change the pixels. You'll need to use some other program to do that.
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