Problem with the progress line in MS Project

Hi there,
I have a question about the progress line in MS Project. 
My boss asked me to see how far we were with the work, so I inserted the column '% Complete' and then the progress line.
Now my boss has a problem with the layout and I don't know how the fix it. The problem is at line 43 and 44, where the progress line indicates that we are behind on that group of tasks. But is it possible for the progress line to not indicate it on lines
43 and 44 but only on lines 45 to 50? So my question is if it's possible to make the progress line go down (vertically) over line 43 and 44 instead of jumping to the back? 
It would be much more simple if I could insert lines 43 ad 44 as text but not as a task, so that it just counts as a title of some tasks but nothing more than that. Is that possible in Project?
(Lines 45 to 50 are subtasks for line 44, and 44 is a subtask for 43. So line 43 is the main task.)
Normally there was a picture here but I couldn't upload it because my account is not yet verified... So hopefully you can understand the problem with the text. 
If anyone could give my some advice or the solution, that would be great!
Thanks in advance!

Hi Thunderbal66--
Basically your activity 43 is late because the sub tasks are also late. Thus MS Project shows the situation by moving the progress line backward. The progress line is automatically displayed based on your project progress, there is no way to manually change
it unless you update your project.
I think the question is not there. This is more a matter of project governance and transparency: why not showin that a project is late when it is late and taking the appropriate corrective actions?
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MVP, P-Seller |

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