actually, I think the fact that you're getting a distorted circle may have more to do with the fact that you polygon 'circle' cutout isn't circular to begin with - in the second set of pictures, the vertices on the cardinal directions (up/down/right/left) are farther out than the ones on the 45 degree divisions (leastways, what I can see from this shot).
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