Ok, i think i understand what are you saying. Ok, i hope you still have a pic croped in Photoimpact. Please put that pictures on a ftp server so we can see it too. If you cand please upload the 2 instances of the photo, you know...before and after. I'm sure we can find a way to do this in ps.
About PhotoImpact...i think it's a bug...althought i'm not to familiarized with PhotoImpact(my fault

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