Smart objects rotating unexpectedly

Hi All,
I don't use smart objects very much, so I hope someone will save me the time of learning too quickly...
I have a supplied .psd file which has several faults in method of construction by noobie, but the one throwing me is that two of the 3 or 4 smart objects placed in it are displaying rotated 90 degrees and are scaling to fit the apparent frame.
I believe they showed correctly when I opened the file for a look, but after making a levels adjustment in one of the s/o's, the two changed orientation and refuse to behave now.
I don't recall hearing of this before, is it common?
PS11.0.1
OSX 10.5.7
Intel Duo

No, I don't know anything except that the file was prepared by a noobie who had no idea...
To describe better, it is a front cover all laid out in photoshop with some text on layers and 5 mugshots scattered around the edge of the page, all smart objects and normal portrait orientation.
I opened the file with no warnings except profile, viewed correctly, noted the ugly colour in mugshots, so double clicked on layer to open smart object, which went fine, made tonal adjustments and flattened s/o and closed. When the parent file updated, that s/o came back rotated 90deg and distorted to fit in the original frame ie squashed! Not only that, but another s/o had done the same even though I had not opened it!
Quite bizarre, but sometimes these amateurs come up with some strange ways to build a file so anything was possible in the construction.
Also, the text on their laser sample is a serif but it opened on my machine as arial with no warning. Maybe it is just a busted file!
I don't get a lot of weird things happening, I have a low-spec but very stable system and up to date and I have had plenty of practice, but admittedly not much with smart objects so I am putting it down to a one-off file glitch or something I don't understand with the smarty...

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