Exported models from XSI are vertically stretched. Help please. Thread

Ive been modelling a semi detailed lampost in XSI and exported it to use in hammer. However, in XSI the lampost is 96 units high whereas when i load the model into hammer it has stretched to 300 or so units high. The horizontal dimesions still look accurate.

Does anyone have any idea what im doing wrong? I guarantee its something annoyingly simple.
Thanks in advance.

If you have any transforms/operations/edits applied to the model, freeze them prior to exporting or else they wont get taken into consideration by the smd.

Yep, I hadnt looked in the local transform menu under kinematics in the explorer..... Y was set to 0.61something. So everytime I exported the model it stretched it back to 1.

Thanks for the help, im still blundering my way through xsi but i'll get there.

Cheers.