Follow the instructions here: http://trac.elgg.org/elgg/ticket/1167
I could say the cropping code is terrible. It could work with those instructions but IMHO it should be rewritten from scratch for the next version.
Yeah, 1.7 would be a good version to fix it with all other fixes and standardizations.
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