(...) Confirmed! Well spotted. Any non-scaling reference to a part is shrunk, except if the reference is from a part. A part is currently defined as a file located in PARTS. "s\3069bs01.dat" (as a path) is located in PARTS. When the new part was in (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
Wanting to confirm one other thing. Is it intentional that a .ldr file with the same name as a part will not actually be procssed and result in a .pov file with only the part? In this case, I was constructing set 4532 and found a pov file with just (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)