Tried toggling the keys, show hidden is always on, calculation order no relevant effect.

Did some comparitive digging around in cr2's against mine and discovered something interesting... my figure does in fact have the standard offset parms but for some reason they are named differently in my figure.

zOffset>OriginZ

Very strange but that eliminates the problem of missing channels and simplifies my problem down to procedural error on my part. I think I can solve this now. I recall having a bit of stumbling last time I set up Animated centers, I'll take some more time with it to figure out what I'm doing wrong... I got this, just a bit of panicking I think. Also a bit over tired today, I'll have another go at it when I have more free time this weekend.

Thanks Charles