Red Eye Adjustment not saved (completely)

After upgrading my library, I tried editing some photos.
On one, I made red-eye adjustment that looked just fine--that is until I saved the edit. Once saved, the red-eye correction was different (and not as complete) as I had seen in the edit window. Some of the corrections were good, but one I could not get to save properly!
Anyone else having this problem? Or better yet, know of a workaround or fix?
++ Peter
iMac 15" G4 800MHz Mac OS X (10.4.4)

I'm having the exact same thing. I make red-eye adjustments, it says it's saving, but the red-eye tool changes are NOT saved. Here are some things I've tried doing before re-trying the red-eye tool, none of which have fixed the problem:
1. Making other edits in iPhoto and saving them first.
2. Making other edits in photoshop and saving them first.
3. Duplicating the image in iPhoto.
4. Reverting to original and starting over.
5. Exporting the photo and re-importing it.
6. Exporting the photo, editing it in Photoshop, and reimporting it.
7. Exporting the original TIFF, converting to PNG, and re-importing it.
8. Exporting the original TIFF, converting to JPEG, and re-importing it.
9. Exporting the TIFF, scaling it down slightly, and re-importing it.
10. Cropping it.
11. Exporting as TIFF, downsizing to 2,000 pixels wide, and re-importing it.
Here's what did work:
- Exporting it as a jpeg scaled down from 3004 pixels wide to 2000 pixels wide and re-importing it.
- Exporting as a TIFF, scaling down to 1000 pixels wide, and reimporting it.
NOTE that scaling it down to a 2000 pixel wide JPEG allows the edit to work, but scaling down to a 2000 pixel TIFF does NOT! Yet scaling it down further as a TIFF does work! I also tried scaling it down just slightly as a JPEG- from 3004 to 3000 pixels, which did NOT work.
I have no idea what's going on, but it's sure annoying. The red eye tool makes perfect adjustments, and then anytime I leave that image and go back to it, the changes are not there, despite iPhoto saying "saving changes."
I'd be glad to send a test image this happens to to Apple, if anyone wants it, because this is definitely a bug, and an annoying one. It doesn't happen with most images, so if Apple doesn't happen to have an image around that this happens to, they won't be able to re-create the bug for testing.
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