Indesign Stroke/Scale Problem- scale all whacked "Apply to content" vs "adjust scaling percentage"

Hi All

I have multiple photos of various sizes that I am importing in and resizing down to the same size in inDesign. I want to put a consistently sized stroke on all my photos in my layout.  I have set my preferences in "Apply to content" vs "adjust scaling percentage" to apply to content.

I resize all my photos in indesign. Some of the photos are scaling down properly and when they do the default size returns to a 100% on the control bar. But some of the photos are not resetting.

I have tried different preference settings but cant get the some of the images to reset. I want the scale effects to be assigned to the graphic frame box and to reset my strokes and not the photo.

Because of all the resized scaling the photo maybe resized 33% and the box 50% and the stroke is definitely not a proper size ie 4pt it might be 2pt, it might be 1pt. I want to reassign all my strokes to be consistent but often it doesn't work.

Another example - If I have 10 placed photos for example and some are scaled down to 5% some 33% some 7% one 50% one 20% - and I select all ten photos and I assign a 20pt stroke, 9 will accept the 20pt scale, one, the 50% reduced one will be 10pt. I can't get it to reset.

Another example if I select 3 photos of varying strokes (#1@5%10pt stroke - #2@80%5pt stroke - #3@50%4pt stroke), the stroke size in the control bar will be grayed out obviously. If I assign a 20pt stroke, two of the three will accept the stroke, 20pt - the one scaled 50% will be 10pt or if it was 75% it would be 5pt stroke).

I don't know if it is because the preferences might have been set to "adjust scaling percentage" originally when the document was created or what? I have open and closed the document, reset the preferences. Cutting and pasting the image out of the frame doesn't work, if the image is scaled 50% and you then assign a 20pt stoke it will be visually 10pts. It gets really frustrating when you line up 100 images visually at 2pts and make a design change to 3 or 4 pts because visually it is only slightly out of whack but you have to manually reset multiple times.

Is there a way to turn of scale stroke effects in indesign or is there any suggested solutions?