Maybe that has to do with the ink filter being in multiply mode, thus pasting it adds the filter. And the filter messes up the bounding box which the placement is calculated upon. Just guessing. Have you tried duplicating (Ctrl+D) the object instead, and move it to the other layer with Shift+PgUp? ...

Thanks, that's crazy. You can duplicate this: 1. Select the other blob (the one in Mountains Bound layer) 2. Copy 3. Select the Mountains layer 4. "Paste in Place" The pasted version magically gets a blend filter. Is that a bug? The original doesn't have a filter. Also, why isn't the paste...

Here's an SVG exhibiting the problem. http://sumnerhayes.com/static/random/transwhy.svg There are a couple of strangenesses: 1. The blob (same shape as in the above screenshot) that's offset slightly to the right and down is transparent. It was created by selecting the other blob, copying, selecting...

I've not encountered this problem before: I can't figure out how to make this shape opaque, which is normally the default. Obviously I screwed something up somewhere, but I'm pulling my hair out trying to find it. You can see that the layer is set to normal mode, opacity 100%. And the object fill is...