Smart Objects: How can I prevent resizing when replacing contents?

There seem to be 2 kinds of smart objects:
One kind where you can replace the contents, no matter what size it has and it will fit into the bounding box of the smart object which is already there.
The other kind where this doesn't happen.
Is there any way to control that behaviour? I found that in older PS-files, replacing contents always made the new content fit into the bounding box, but since CS3, the transformation stays the same which means I have to rescale the smart-object if the content-size has changed.
Example:
Imagine a game cover with screenshots on the back side. Now each screenshot is a smartobject.
All Screenshots are at 640x480 (assumend the standard screen dpi of 72)
Now I found them in a better resolution (1024x768, also 72dpi) and replace the old ones with "replace content".
The old photoshop behaviour: Photoshop would fit the larger image to occupy exactly the same area than it's predecessor.
The new behaviour: The whole Smartobject is enlarged by 160% (not the transformation parameters, the visual appearance.), I have to scale it down to make it fit to the old size.
And I really wonder about having older and newer Photoshop-Files where these Smartobjects behave differently.
Now did I miss something in the help section or is there a way to control this behaviour?

Yes, fortunately, I am a Windows user, but I don't want to start a religious war here And it is also possible to run multiple versions of Adobe products simultaneously under Windows - why shouldn't that be possible? Currently I have CS3 and CS4 and somtimes use CS3 when CS4 is just too buggy to get the job done. Before that I had CS and CS2 on the same machine.
But I wouldn't keep all versions back to PS 6.0 or CS, that would be a bit too chaotic and I'd had to spend days of installing if I get a new computer. I expect those programs to be a little bit backwards-compatible, so I don't have to use many different versions. And for Photoshop, this is mostly the case. It's just very tiny details like Smart Object resizing that seems to work differently.
Otherwise I'm really happy that in CS4 I can finally link Masks to smart objects and apply warp and perspective on them, that's a big plus!

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