Premiere Motion:Position keyframes ghosted

I am new to editing in Adobe Premiere, and am running CS5. I am attempting to create a Flash banner that features a short segment of video content.
I am attempting to animate a small pan, moving my movie clip up slightly and then to the right.
I set my clip to Motion:Position expecting to be able to Keyframe the motion of my clip. However the Keyframe control, whilst present, is ghosted out.
How do I Keyframe the position of my movie clip?
Any and all help appreciated.

Click on your clip, move the timeline to the start of the move sequence and then in your Motion>Position
click the clock to the left of the word Position. Move the time line along to the
position you want the movement of the clip to end and then either change the coordinates in Motion>Position or grab the video in the Program Monitor and move it to the desired place.

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