Keyframes randomly shift on parent layer

Just curious if anyone else has seen this issue. I've talked to one person about it, but he can't seem to figure out why he has the issue as well.
Sometimes when I put keyframes on the parent layer from such things as scale, position, etc....then if I shift or trim something on one of the child layers...the parent's keyframes will move either back or forward to an arbitrarily place. (BTW: If I hit undo, they won't good back to their original position either)
The distance between the keyframes stays the same, but they will all shift arbitrarily.
This has been a really annoying thing to work around, because I have to set my child layers and then make sure the keyframes for the parent layer are set last.
Locking the keyframes in the keyframe editor does nothing, it will still move. If anyone has any insight, that would be great!
Thanks.
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Could this have to do with the fact that by trimming child layers, you are sometimes altering the length of the parent, thus compressing the keyframes?
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