Transparency frame of moving, resizing clip in 6.5

In Premiere 6.5, I'm trying to move and resize a transparent clip. That works, however, the result only shows the background that is that size of the resized clip area. That is, the frame of the clip (the green screen area, that is chroma'd into transparency) becomes the only part of the composite that I can see. The clip moves and shrinks, and the viewable area of the background moves and shrinks along with it.
I can make the frame of the clip huge, so that as it shrinks it always includes the background, however, this seems like a kludge, and requires specially sizing the part of the clip that I want to show.
How might I more effectively move and resize a clip without it effectively "matte-ing" out the background?
Any help with this would be appreciated.
Thanks!

Let me try another explanation, on a hypothetical example (similar to my real project)
Say I've got a picture of a sidewalk as the background.
I've got a picture of a ball as the foreground.
I put the picture of the ball on a "green screen"
I put the ball on Video Track 2, the sidewalk on Video Track 1
In the Transparency Effect for the ball, I select chroma, and select the green backcolor
In the Motion effect for the ball, I have it move from top to bottom, and as it moves down, it decresases in size by 50%.
The problem is that as that as the frame for the ball shrinks, the view "thru the now-transparent green screen" also shrinks...I only see the part of the sidewalk behind the shrinking ball frame.
I've looked at (have the trial, but not fully investigated) Elements 8, and it looks like it's Premiere 6.5 repackaged with a (pardon me) eye-punishing format, a dumbed down (and thus harder to use) GUI, and a mass market price.
So, I'm assuming if there's a way to beat this problem in Elements, it can be done the same way in 6.5
Thanks again for attention to this. I'd like to clarify that at this point it is somewhat academic, because I'm probably going to be able generate all my animations outside Premiere and import then as individual frames. Works slick! However it would be nice to know how to do the above, in case it's needed.

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