Hi Jesse, I'm no expert by any means, but have played a little with the PP thing while learning MS6. Are you doing a (insert elements) import, or slide show. I have not used the import, just slideshow. That seems to work fine and maintains any animation (as I recall). I have noticed that if PP is open, strange things will happen. Insure you have closed it out prior to booting up MS6. Hope this helps some...
-Stu