Image as drop-down text link -- image doesn't appear

(Using Robohelp X5)
Wondering if anybody has had anything like this happen before
and can explain it for me???
First line of topic is type <h1>. At the end of the
line I have an icon that is a link to drop-down text.
Here's where it gets weird. I compiled the help and displayed
the .chm. Looked at the topic, the image doesn't appear, but is
clickable (and works properly). Used the 'print' option from the
.chm to print to .pdf. The image appears in the .pdf.
Looked at the code, can't see anything wrong with it.
Back in the wysiwyg editor, selected the last character of
normal text plus the clickable icon, copied and pasted in place (so
now have
<text2><dropdown2><text><dropdown>)
Removed <text><dropdown> (the original content),
edited the code to use the proper 'name' attribute (because it was
modified on the paste), recompiled, ran the .chm, everything
displays properly (the image is there).
Note: I was having similar problems with it earlier, think I
fixed it the same way, and everything was okay for a few compiles,
then started having the problems again.
At this point, as far as I can see, the .html is the *same*
as it was before, but now the image appears in the .chm. Colour me
totally confused :-)
Anybody have any insights as to why this could be happening?
Thanks!

Change what you have now:
a:link {
    color: #4E8E98;
    text-decoration: none;
a:visited {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #4E8E98;
a:hover {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: black;
a.dark:active {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #FFF;
a.light:link {
    color: #DCDBE1;
    text-decoration: none;
a.light:visited {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #DCDBE1;
a.light:hover {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #776153;
a.light:active {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #FFF;
a.dark:link {
    color: #4E8E98;
    text-decoration: none;
a.dark:visited {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #4E8E98;
a.dark:hover {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: black;
a.dark:active {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #FFF;
To this:
/**MAIN LINKS**/
a {text-decoration: none}
a:link { color: #4E8E98;}
a:visited {color: #4E8E98;}
a:hover { color: #000;}
a:active, a:focus {color: #FFF;}
/**SPECIAL LINKS**/
.light a:link {color: #DCDBE1;}
.light a:visited {color: #DCDBE1;}
.light a:hover {color: #776153;}
Nancy O.
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