Urgent: How to tween motion guide?

Hi,
Basically, I have this motion guide set up with a ball on it. The ball travels along the motion guide as I want, but I need the motion guide to move as well. When I tween the motion guide, the ball no longer moves across the guide.
I have a background that I want to scroll from right-left to make it look like the ball is moving.
I want the path to move at the same speed as the background to so the ball moves along the background
How can I do that?
Here are the project files so you can have a look at what I want. If you could do what I want for me that would be awesome!
cs5.5
https://rapidshare.com/files/238332578/PAth.fla
cs5
https://rapidshare.com/files/3320417608/PAth5.fla
cs4
https://rapidshare.com/files/2435213298/PAth4.fla
Thanks

Animating the path will break the timeline tween as you have already seen. What you need to do is place the entire animation you have now inside a movieclip and tween that movieclip in the opposite direction of the ball motion. To place it into a movieclip, select all the frames in the timeline, right click and choose copy frames. Create a new Movieclip symbol, right click the one keyframe in it and choose paste frames.

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