Kacey - if you are dragging layers from one document to another, and you want all layers to be aligned just the same, select all layers to be moved, left click on them and hold to drag them and before dragging hold shift, then drag them to the new document. They will retain their original alignment. I do this all the time.

As to you layer problem - that is really weird.
I feel like something must be occurring that you are not aware of but what that would be - idk.
Maybe next time place that texture layer one level above a plain white background layer and then lock the texture layer.
Would be interesting to see if that changed things.