Whoah.....I think I have some misconceptions.  I thought that all the renders were done from the camera view, the default.  But you stated that.... if you decide to render from the camera view..... Also...I took particular note of the fact that.... when you go to Render feature the default perspective view setting will usually reactivate....and you have to reset to camera view again.  We can render from the perspective view? 

This might be the cause of the problem I'm having off and on with the render not being the camera view.   Crikies.  I'm going to go look for those options right now.

And thank you for the information!