Very Bizarre (to me, anyway) problem animating particle emitter movement

I'm fairly new to Motion, and I'm sure this falls under the "missing a piece of info" category, but for the life of me, I can't figure this one out.
I've added a simple particle emitter to a video. It's called "Pop Star," found in the "Sparkles" subfolder of the particle emitters folder in the library.
I want to animate some basic movement of the entire particle emitter. I basically just want it to move from about the middle of the screen to the upper right corner of the screen while doing its particle emitter magic.
I have placed the emitter in a group by itself. When I choose the group and drag, I have no problem whatsoever moving the emitter wherever I want. HOWEVER, when I try to RECORD the movement, or when I try to set movement keyframes the same way I do when animating any other content, the emitter will no longer move at all. Instead, when I click the group and drag, a red control point appears and I end up dragging that. When I play the animation back, the symbol representing the anchor point is moving along the line from the first control point to the one I created, but the particle emitter itself does not move at all.
I've tried this on two separate computers, so I'm sure it's user error - I just don't understand what's happening...or NOT happening.
Any advice/ideas/suggestions appreciated. Thanks in advance...

Thanks for the response. So the location parameter is unable to be changed in certain emitters like this one? I chose another emitter at random, "Diesel Fire" I think, and I WAS able to animate the movement of that emitter the way I was trying to animate the movement of the "Pop Star" emitter. I have to admit, I'm still having a hard time understanding why that is.
I suppose a workaround here would be to export the "Pop Star" emitter separately and then bring it back in as a .mov file?
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