Stabilization rotates my footage!

When using the stabilization feature, fcpx rotates my footage... Is that because it's TO shaky?
I can avoid it if I drag the sliders almost all the way to zero...

Well, then it's not very good at guessing, is it?  ;-)
I might get a tripod, but it won't be used very often... Its not very practical for home video ...
I'm using fcpx because iMovie output is terrible (and so is apples standard h.264 in fcpx), if you were wondering :-)

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