Smart Objects Problem : Templates : CS3 : WIN

Hello,
I am trying to create some reusable templates in Photoshop CS3 using Smart
Objects. Basically I want to layout the page with some place-holder photos
that are smart objects and then when I need to create a page simply load the
template PSD, right-click on the smart object layer in the layers palette
and choose replace contents. This seems to be possible and even works
sometimes. However, a lot of times the size of the smart object images
change.
For example I could set a smart object place-holder image to be 4 x 6 -
inches at 300 dpi, replace the image with another image and the size will
then jump to some odd size. I even had it once go to 2 x 10 inches. I
thought the whole point of smart objects was that I could replace the
contents and it would be sized, etc. the same. Well that is one point of
smart objects.
Is there a bug? Could the fact that I have layer styles and rotation and
resize transformations applied to the smart object be creating the problem?
Any way around this?
This is Photoshop CS3, Windows Vista, Quad Core Processor, 4GB of RAM, 8 TB
of hard drive space.

Are you perhaps changing the layer order, grouping or some clipping masks? As usual I'm not working with these features a lot and probably shouldn't advise ;-), but I could imagine that this would affect rasterization and how PS may want to update info that no longer is in the place where it expects... I'd also check the "Temp" directory (Documents and Settings\Rachael\Local Settings\Temp). Perhaps it's simply full and the programs are not able to update the temporary files.
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