You may want to take a look at some alternative ways to align across sessions:
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One method addresses your specific request. I suspect you are running into a case where the overlap among anatomical datasets is partial, and 3drotate is assuming the grid of the original dataset. AFNI has several methods for applying transformation matrices (3drotate, 3dWarp, 3dAllineate, @auto_tlrc, adwarp and align_epi_anat.py) I recommend taking a look at the webpage I posted and the align_epi_anat.py script help.