Best way to super-impose multiple people in 1 shot?

Hi all. I filmed a scene with myself running in 4 different places, and now I want to merge them all together into a final shot (so that it looks like there are multiple of me, all in the same shot), but I'm having trouble with the Garbage Matte and Image Matte tools.
So, couple questions:
1: Is there any way to blur the edges of the Garbage Matte? Hard edges are a problem, because there is moving vegetation in the background, so you can see this odd line panning across the image when one of myself runs by.
2: Is there a way to MOVE the matte when using Image Matte? This would have solved it for me, but apparently the image matte can't be moved... at all... (form what I can tell).
3: Does anyone else have a nightmare using Garbage Matte, because the preview won't properly show you what the Garbage Matte is actually doing (it's bugged - a bit offset), until you Render Work Area?
4: Is there some other way to achieve what I'm trying to do?

OK, I'll try. First of all, I see the same problem with the matte not showing up properly. I never noticed it before and a bug report needs to be submitted by as many people as possible. This is a new problem, but may have been in CS3 the whole time. I can't tell. Scrubbing helps as well as rendering. Annoying. I guess I haven't used it lately.
1. Create the garbage matte.
2. Create a new sequence
3. Put a black color matte on track one
4. Put a white color matte on track two
5. Go back to the original sequence, select the garbage matte in the Effect Controls panel, and Ctrl-c to copy it.
6. Paste the garbage matte on to the white matte on track two on the second sequence.
7. Apply a fast blur to the white matte, maybe 50%
8. Delete the original garbage matte (or disable it)
9. Nest sequence 2 into sequence one above the original tracks.
10. Apply the track matte effect to the original material pointing to the nested seqence as the matte.
Simple enough if it were not for that stupid bug.

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