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Not definate. I worked for the airlines for years, this flight is late, they most likely asked for a better routing to deal with headwinds (headwinds normally go west to east) it happens all the time. As for the flight path it can be a different flight path because of the different time of take off and the amount of traffic coming into LAX. Lots of flights come in LAX at this time, its part of a time banking. Most of the flights across the pacific leave LAX from 7-10 pm, (SYD, TPE, NRT, AUK, HKG) as well as many flights to Europe. There is a whole bunch of feeder traffic that comes in about now.

Interesting thread, boys and girls. I happened to subscribe to Airnav's Flightracker a couple of weeks ago, and so, can survey everything currently flying over the Western Hemisphere that is equipped with a transponder. At the moment, AFR068 is over northern Nevada, and is being shadowed by a two aircraft from Mountain Home AFB near Boise. It's travelling as you have reported at 37,000 feet at 512 knots. The two shadows are behind the craft and currently at 35,000 feet and 410 and 510 knots, respectively.