boujou and scaling issues in AE

he folks,
this is a problem I'm running into when I import boujou data into AE. Everything lines up okay and tracks fine. That's not the issue. It's just when I make a layer 3D, like some keyed footage, AE instantly tosses it way out into 3d space and I have to zoom way out of the comp to even find it.
Then I have to spend a few minutes lining it back up and placing it in the shot and usually reducing the scale of the layer down to about 1-5%. This also makes moving objects within the comp very difficult being that the layers move in huge jumps instead of small precise, incremental moves.

Any idea as to how to correct this?

Thanks.