Mini movie help...

I've been trying since yesterday to get the mini movie right... This is my first try. I've looked in the memories, searched around on google, but I couldn't find anything that helped me fix my problem. Thing is, I have the base, do everything that was posted in the mini-movie tuturial, but when I look at the 'optimized' thing, the image is all screwy. And cutting down on frames didn't help...

It went from this:

to this:


How can I fix that? :S

I use Photoshop's Image Ready 7.0

Also, is there no way in which you can manually place the animation anywhere on the base instead of using the forced pattern (center, left, right, top left, top right etc.)?

Please help me! I'd be most grateful!