GIF Transparency problem

I'm having a problem with animated GIF transparencies and photoshop. We've been having "halo" problems with some of our rendred images (transparencies) so I've been testing all of the animated GIF's in photoshop after compling them in Fireworks. The GIF's in fireworks look fine...full transparent background. But when I load it into photoshop the "excess canvas" background (beyond the limits of the image) are completely white. Everything within the boundaries of the image are transparent. I can solve this by trimming the canvas but need to retain the full canvas size for placement purposes.
Has anyone encountered this? Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks in advance.

I'm fairly sure Photoshop does not support importing GIF animations. It used to have the other program "ImageReady", which coud be used to export as GIF animations, and load them properly with all of their frames and correct settings. However, when adobe chnaged it to put these two programs thogether, allowing photoshop to create GIF animations in the same was ImageReady could, they didn't put in support to read the GIF files afterwards for some unknown reason. Whenever a GIF is given to Photoshop, i always get a message saying that i can only view the first frame of the animation. The transparent background is also white, which is the problem you are having.
I do sprite sheets for 2d games, and i find myself having to go back to Image Ready 7 much of the time to open the GIF files to see them properly, edit any frames needed, and then bring them back into photoshop for cleaning and/or exporting. I wish adobe would allow photoshop to read GIF files properly too.

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