How to position sub-titles??

I'm running QuickTime 7.2 on Windows XP-Pro. I'm trying to subtitle a 1280 x 720 movie using the following QTtext file:
{QTtext} {language:0} {timestamps:absolute} {timescale:30}
{height:80} {width:1280}
{textBox:640,0,720,1280}
{font:Arial} {size:30} {plain} {anti-alias:on}
[00:00:00.00]
{justify:center}
Listen - [{italic}dog barking{plain}]
[00:00:05.11]
Second caption
[00:00:10.00]
My main problem is in positioning - no matter what I do, the subtitles appear at the top of the screen, even if I try manually moving the text track by changing the visual settings in the Movie Properties page. What do I need to do to perform positioning??
A second problem is with the line "Listen - [{italic}dog barking{plain}]"; everything up to the closing ] is italicized. How come?

I tried that, but it didn't seem to make any difference. When I changed the values, nothing happened to the text bar position. And when I went back to check, the values had returned to 0,0.
I've been using WebAim's tutorial to learn about this stuff (www.webaim.org/techniques/captions/quicktime), and their description of how to position the text track bears little relation to the version of QuickTime I'm using.

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