After Effects CS4 files alignment broken in CS6

Hi all. I have just been loading some of my older projects (CS4) into my shiny new copy of CS6 and a lot of the files are broken. The issue is that the layers seem to have shifted horizontaly...their pivot points are still correct, however the layer's position has shifted left or right horizontally...no problems vertically. It seems to be happenng with assets generated in CS4 Illustrator and it is almost like their bounding box has changed. This will mean spending ages lining stuff up again, and I'd love to know if anyone else has seen this happening...and has found a way to fix it.
Thank you for your time
Shane

Thanks for the heads up. Embarrassingly I thought I had
I've posted over there too.
thanks again
Shane

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