Moving multiple keyframes

Hello,
In AE CS3, I'm trying to make a relative change to all the position keyframes on one layer. I click "Position" to highlight all, then drag the value slider, but it just adds a new keyframe where the position indicater is.
I've dug around in the help file (and thought I found a solution) and in the forums, but no luck! Surely there's an easy way to do this!
Thank you in advance!
AE CS3

You say that you tried something that you found in Help, but it didn't work. What, exactly, did you try?
Here's what I would recommend, from "Change multiple keyframe values at once":
"If you change a value by dragging the underlined value, all selected keyframes change by the same amount. In other words, you make a relative change. For example, if you select several Position keyframes on a motion path and drag the underlined value for one of them, all selected keyframe values change by the same amount."
From your initial description of your problem, it doesn't seem that you selected the keyframes themselves; it just seems that you selected the property.

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