Hello I modified your file. - When you change the size of the canvas, and there is a layer, in order to keep the position of the objects that are in the layer, Inkscape applies a transformation attribute to the layer. The way I know to erase that attribute is using the XML editor (Shift + Ctrl + X)...

I did read the manual bud...did what you said +tylerdurden...unfortunately didn't work!
I think you're onto something about the page resizing +hulf2012..
...also adding the svg file

THanks!

Thanks... Away from the desk... I'll let you guys know! Btw I love this program!

SO what am I doing wrong?? :( :o I want to create a cloned tile of a rectangle around a 360 degree circle I draw my rectangle at 12 oclock click on transform drag the + to the center hit clone tile symmetry is simple translation shift X per column -100 Rotation column is 30 why does it do this@#@! m...