Inconsistent extent?

[JessicaStitcher]

I am a very new GIS user, and have recently received the "warning: inconsistent extent" message when loading a new shapefile.  As a result, this shapefile does not display with the rest of my data.  I imagine there's a standard solution for this, but I have very limited experience and am not sure where to begin.  Any help you can provide would be appreciated!

[DanPatterson_Retired]

feet versus meters???  approx 3ish feet to 1 meter check with the originator of the data something is amiss

[JessicaStitcher]

I checked with the originator, and this is supposed to be in feet (State Plane Oregon
North, NAD 1983(HARN), International Feet).  Is there any way to change the extents so they match?

[WilliamClark]

Is this dataset publicly available?  If so...direct me (I'm in Oregon, too - I'd like to see this fixed).

[JessicaStitcher]

It is publicly available:

http://gis.co.marion.or.us/gisdownload/disclaimer.aspx

The layer in question is called "Parcels".

[WilliamClark]

First:
When I brought the parcels layer in its geographic coordinate system was undefined.  I defined it a number of ways trying to overlay it on a county layer in Lamber feet. Nothing worked.  When you look at its extent, it seems like it should be in a gcs of meters rather than feet.  Still nothing worked.
Second:
When looking at the metadata on the website under spatial reference information, the planar units indicate meters rather than feet. 
Third:
The layer has been updated recently (March 2010), so I would contact them and tell them the layer has errors.
Good luck.

[JessicaStitcher]

That figures!  Nothing like being absolutely new at something and working with an erroneous file! 

Thanks again for all of your help - much appreciated!