Adobe Captivate 8 - Publishing an Invalid imsmanifest.xml file

For the past few weeks, my manager and I have been importing recorded WebEx files (converted to mp4 format) into Captivate 8, and publishing them in scorm 1.2 so that we can upload them to our learning portal.
Today, we have started receiving error messages that say the imsmanifest.xml file is not a valid scorm file.
When I open the imsmanifest file, this is what I get:
Some of the files publish just fine, others do not. The process is exactly the same. Any ideas?

Thank you -- I uploaded to Scorm Cloud, and here's the error message I received:
No special characters in the course name or path, unless you see something here that I don't...

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