Rear brake pads on the front?

[wally999]

Went to do my front brakes on my 2000 boxster. Weird, they had rear pads on them. I looked them up to make sure and yeap they are rear pads. Why would that be? This car I bought used, so I didn't do it! I checked the disk and made sure it was a front, it was. When I checked the new pads (which are for the front) they wouldn't really fit size wise on the disk. Just cant figure out why there were rears on the front. I did measure the front disks and compared them to some on line auto part specs. They are front ones. I am thinking I need to check out a new disk and see how the pads fit in it. Just looked like the new pads would overlap the uncut area of the disk. What do you guys think?