Have you ever read about this issue anywhere else?Let's agree to disagree then. As I explained above, the swapped front channels on the SACD would be the obvious consequence of the engineer paying attention to detail when remixing this material for multichannel. If the front channel assignment would be kept as in the stereo release, to match the rears Cobham would have to be playing with his back towards the listener and the rest of the band, which is not a reasonable choice (and this seems to be the choice on the Q8 at least, since the front matches stereo and the drum roll goes in a circle).
However, going back to SACD players: please correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to be a confirmed conclusion of this discussion that some of these players swap rear channels, depending on whether they are playing a 5.0 or 5.1 discs. This is quite surprising.