Using Photoshop CS3 & After Effects CS3

Hey All,
I just created an animation in After Effects CS3. I am working from a 2D PSD file with a lot of layers. I am working on a PPC Mac, Quad G5 with 4.5GB RAM. I am running OS X 10.4.11.
When I add the comp to the render queue it cannot render due to the image size of the PSD is too large. When I reduce the image size in Photoshop and then switch back to after effects, the animation is thrown off. I have certain layers that are parented to other layers and it seems that when I change the image size and switch back AE pays no mind to them, and they are scattered all over the place.
Make sense?
Can anyone help please?
Thanks,
Sean

Thanks Mylenium. The anchor point is centered on my parent layer in this animation and it still throws everything off when I change the image size. So taking your suggestion of creating a null layer:
My Original Image is (in pixels WxH) 8741 x 5831. And I am working in a 720x480 project. I know, I should have created a 720x480 new file to begin with and conform everything to that then I wouldn't have this problem, but I didn't want to sacrifice image quality.
Would I create a Null object 8741 x 5831? or Would it be 720x480?
What do you mean by copy the animation? Duplicate the layers? Or Copy & Paste?
Then after I am done with that should I go back into Photoshop and change the size?
Sorry if this seems silly but I have not run into this problem yet. I think next time I will change the image size before I start animating.

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