What's up with animations?

Hey,

I'm having trouble with animations that I've never had before. I'm not sure what's going on. I have some animations that I made in Maya, and some that I made in Unity. The problems that I'm having are with ones that I'm trying to key-frame in Unity.

After reading around I found a lot of the fixes. None seem to be working at this time. I've tried parenting my object to an empty object in the location I want it to appear, but the object appears in a weird location once I try to play the scene.

The problem I'm having with my animations is I can't get them to play in the right place. I have this one animation keyframed that looks find when I scrub the timeline in Unity, but when I play the scene the animation starts in a weird location...

Also I noticed that when I set a keyframe at the start of the animation, and then move the object and set another... when I scrub the timeline to the first keyframe in the animation the object goes to 0,0 as if that's where I set the keyframe...

not sure what's going on here..

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time.