Quote - Muralist,

The smoothing and bending are turned off at places other than the channel themselves. If you delete a rotate or translate channel, it has not been turned off at another place, so I don't think it will work, but, that said, I have never tried it. Do a few experiments and see, maybe you have stumbled on something here, just deleting an entire channel instead of locking it.

It seemed to work by just deleting them, but I've rewritten the .cr2 and only deleted the smoothing, joint, and taper channels, locking the others and setting them to 0.  I'm just now running a test anim and I'll post it in a few minutes.

By the way do you have that cr2 for Vincent Parker for me?