CAN THIS BE RIGHT?

A colleague built an extended intersection (some streets and houses, some posts and billboards, etc.) for a project I'm working on. He exported from Rhino as a 3DS. It imported to Vue all in one layer together.

So far, no problem. I can group the objects into layers on my own. But when I drag anything into a new layer, Vue moves it to the side. WTF!?! Now I have a train crosing sign that's exploded like some kind of forensics display.

Is there some property I need to address? Or is this just another undocumented feature (like constantly crashing any doc with more than 500,000 polys) that I get to enjoy and work around?

Any help, greatly appreciated...

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