Newbie question; animate deformation

hello, i am having lotsa trouble animating an objects movement along a curve on which it is deformed upon. make sense? i have tried using savekeys when i'm in the objects modelling property window, but when i change values to savekey for where i want the object to go, it doesn't remember the first key's translation. can anyone please help me; it will be very much appreciated, thanx

the translation property for an objects translation along a deformer object is located in the deform property page you have to translate it in there using the slider.