Tony,
It's so strange though. I copied a CD of my parent's trip to italy over to the touch as a test, and every photo worked fine.
Then they all must have gotten pixel-rotated by a piece of software before they went on that CD.
"My impression is that iTunes doesnt bother to read exif data at all. "
How can that be correct? Exif is the only place a jpeg can store that data.
As Tom said, it assumes another piece of software got its mitts on the file first, and did the actual pixel-rotation, and therefore it does not need to interpret any exif rotational data.
Send me two pictures (one processed & one unprocessed).
Okay. Taking the photo now... I'll send you the unprocessed portrait photo. Hopefully the BBS will accept a 1.4 megabyte file...
The file is unaltered from the camera. I simply took the file directly off the memory card and zipped it up. It has never been opened in any application.