Seemingly Simple

Hello,
I am trying to create a seemingly simple effect in Motion and having some trouble.
I am trying to do a simple zoom out from a "fill screen" (text size fills screen) to a hault and then slow crawl (text fills screen, slams to a smaller size and then slowly crawls backward). This is pretty much a standard title animation seen on various trailers.
The preset behaviors and text animations in Motion aren't getting the result I want, so I decided to keyframe the animation...perhaps a bad idea. In LiveType, it is a simple matter of adding a new effect, and keyframing the scale. Everything stays center and flows well; nobody gets hurt.
In Motion, I've tried keyframing scale and size, both affect the position of the text on the X axis. In order to have the text fill the screen on the first frame, I have to change its position along the X axis. Then, to make sure it is center by the "slam" frame, I have to keyframe the X axis. This sounds so simple and nothing should go wrong, however the X axis sort of "juggles" the text back and forth creating a sort of swoop from one side to the other. Even stranger, the X axis values do not fluctuate, they continue diminish, so I cannot isolate what is creating the swoop (I do have a number of filters, however). This sound familiar to anyone?
I've even tried keyframing the position the whole way, but it doesn't work. Plus, the text is sort of crawling back to the side, favoring the left side of the screen (moving from right to left), not center. I don't have any Motion manuals because I did the Universal upgrade deal, so I am a little lost.
Any help is, of course, greatly appreciated!
Thanks In Advance!
~Athen

It can be rather simple, if you will do your pan and zoom in Still Life, a very inexpensive and capable program, AND then bring that footage into Motion for whatever you want to do with it in special effects, etc. Of course, you must export from Still Life in iMovieHD or QuickTime before coming into Motion. It worked for me. Of course, there may be complications for you, of which I am unaware.
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