Thank you so much! Sorry it took me so long to reply, last few weeks feel like a couple days to me right now with work crunching and having to move at the same time. I really appreciate it, helped me out big time!
I'm gonna go out on a lim here and say look in the motionn tab. there should be a check box to limit the roation to only Z. Though it may only be what in inherits instead of it's own transformations but I can't remember. Also look into contraints I'm sure in the motion tab in the little list box if you go under roation and…