OK, now I'm not exactly sure myself what the problem is, but a suggestion is this:
Take a look at the 2 seperate 3DOs in .txt format. Compare everything. Post the blocks of text's differences here. What I'm thinking happened is that the center of the torso mesh became obscured, perhaps along with the offset issue, thus all the other nodes offset in random directions. I've seen this error before. It's USUALLY fixed by renoding the nodes in JOKE, exporting, importing to JED, resaving, and loading into PJed.
Try that if you can, if not, post the differentiations between the 2 3DOs.
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