Smart Object won't keep transform settings

I'm working on an animation which starts with a 3D animated globe, and then a 2D map pops out of the globe. I have the map set as a smart object, transform keyframes on, with the end point in place. Go to the beginning point, distort the image until it matches the projection on the globe and set another key point. It seems to work until I go to the next frame at which time the distort setting appears to change to something completely different that I never set. IfI step back to the beginning keyframe the my settings are gone. If I go back to the step in history where I set the distort it will go back to where I had set it--- until the next frame. There also seem to be nonexistant style effects. I have tried copying the layer, deleting the keyframes and starting fresh, moving the whole animation to a new document, nothing seems to make a difference. Has anyone encountered this problem before?

This is how I set it.

This is what it does when I step to the next frame. After which point the previous keyframe also appears this way.