BSO to ASO Partitioning Help

Can anyone help me with a couple questions in regards to our partitioning strategy from our Block Storage planning cube to our Aggregate storage planning cube in 11.1.2? Our original approach was to use a transparent partition for planning scenario (Budget, Forecast) data from BSO source to ASO target for level-zero only. ASO would handle aggregations. Also loading Actuals data directly into ASO cube from source system. We would like to have additional dimensions not required for Planning to be stored just in the ASO database in order to minimize database size and calc times on the BSO side. Two questions:
1) We've found that the Actuals scenario data can not be queried in the ASO target (return #missing). Is this standard behavior for a transparent partitioned ASO target in 11.1.2?
2) Regardless of partition type (Replicated or Transparent) can we have a different number of dimensions in our BSO and ASO cubes? Again my understanding is no, but wanted to confirm.
Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided.

data that is loaded directly to an ASO cube that is the target of a transparent partition is not visible^^^Isn't this the key? I read that the natively loaded data is overwritten (not really, more like overpartitioned) by the partition definition and the partition takes precedence.
So the answer then would be to not have that conflict.
Unless Tom was talking about something else/I'm misunderstanding.
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour
Edited by: CL on Mar 10, 2011 8:13 AM
Whoops, missed this part:
This is the case even when the intersection of the data is outside the area defined by the partition.I still wonder if there's an overwrite of intersections going on.

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