HMMMM - Perhaps an apology is in order. If the new management team at SGC are the same people as in this article (This article is definitely worth a read),
http://www.autographalert.com/news.html
then perhaps SGC is the new be all and end all in card grading. The people in the article are very sure of themselves. Now I do not know for certain that these are the new people running the show at SGC (that is an unconfirmed rumor), however, if they are, this changes everything. If these people say the card is trimmed, then it must be trimmed - look at their vast experience with autographs.