Is there a way to Instant Alpha Smart Build photos?

In Steve Jobs' iPhone Keynote '07, he introduces the iPhone as three separate devices: an iPod, Phone, and Internet Communicator. He has an icon for each, and uses the Cube Smart Build effect. I tried doing the same but the white border remains around the pictures I dragged into Keynote. I tried to eliminate them by using Instant Alpha, but it won't let you use it to photos in Smart Build. Does anyone know how to get the border off? I want my Keynote to look as professional as Steve's and I don't want this slide to bring it down, any help is greatly appreciated!

For some reason, although the Smart Builds do not let you use an Instant Alpha-ed image alone, if you group it with another object, or even just copy it with another object, the transparency is preserved. The workaround is therefore to create a transparent object by removing its fill, putting this over (or under) your Instant Alpha-ed image, and copying the two of them together. Then select the image well in the Smart Build and paste in the two images. Your photo should have its transparency preserved.
Presumably this is just a bug that will be fixed in future versions.

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