No, it wouldn't have anything to do with Smart Update -- the files are, after all, proper on the backup.
I'm a bit surprised that Finder is changing the ownership of the original files (since there's no reason to do that); have you tried using PathFinder, perhaps?
And just to verify -- you didn't turn ownership off on the backup, did you? That would cause this kind of trouble.
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