After Effects CS3 - Text layer bugging, goes to upper corner always

Hi!
I'm using AE cs3, it has worked fine but suthenly it started to do following...
When I create a new textlayer, put it wherever on the screen and type out my text, it insist on appearing in the left upper corner. After I created it, i move the bounding box around, scale it rotate etc, the text just keeps staying there, in the top left corner slightly outside, it doesnt respond to any transformation adjusting...
ANNOYING...
But when I make the text layer 3d, it appears in the bounding box and is editable like normally... without 3d cam or anything. Have I by accident hit som weird switch or is it corrupted?

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