Afine transformation for absolute object

Hi,
I'm trying to use Matrix transformation to achieve an effect of static afine
transformation (linear rotation + translation). AFA I'm concerned this is the
only way in IE6 to get the effect of rotation of an element by an arbitrary
angle around a given point. It apears impossible to do it.
When I declare the element like ex:
<IMG
style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;filterrogidXImageTransform.Microsoft.Matrix(M11='1.0', sizingmethod= 'auto expand');">
When I set the Mxy linear matrix to rotate the IMG by a given angle the
IMG is always rotated around the center of an image. But given its
position:absolute style, shouldn't it be rotated around point (0,0) or it's
top-left corner? The available documentation does not say anything about the
rotation of an absolute object...
Dx,Dy members of Matrix filter (translation part of the afine
transformation) are ignored in this setting.
When I set sizingmethod to 'clip to original', the transformation seems
to work as I expect (the rotation in Mxy matrix starts rotating around (0,0)
point, and Dx,Dy translation starts working, but everything outside the
original area is clipped and I don't know how to avoid that.

Can someone tell me how to make the afine transformation in sizingmethod=
'auto expand' mode (which is the best I'm looking for) or how to avoid
clipping in sizingmethod= 'clip to original' mode?
Thanks for your time and help.
Chris.