We have all the cumulative hotfixes installed and the newest hotfix to solve the image locking problem already. I couldn't find anything about borders in any of the cumulative hotfix explanations, but the documentation is a little thin on those, too.
That seems to be a known issue with certain sharpening methods. I do not know if this was fixed in CF9. But for CF8 the work-around seems to be using a different method for sharpening.
A brief peek confirmed these popular image components seems to using java's ConvolveOp class as a work-around for the ImageSharpen issue
http://www.alagad.com/projects.imageComponent
http://www.opensourcecf.com/imagecfc/
http://imageutils.riaforge.org/
If you are interested, here is a good article explaining how sharpening works with java's ConvolveOp class and how to avoid the black border issue. http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1013851&seqNum=5&rll=1