Advanced actions not working in project preview or publish

I have a project with advanced actions which work fine in single slide preview but which don't work at all in project preview or when I publish.  To make it even worse a slide on the same project I did earlier works ok when previewed.  Very confused!  Any suggestions?  I have used the force publish option and all the timelines look the same as the successful slide as far as I can see so I have no idea.

Hi Lilybiri,
sorry for the delay in replying, I've been tied up elsewhere.  I'm using CP7.  My advanced action is simply meant to show one image after another on click of a button.  It works perfectly for the first instance and then doesn't for the next two.  The only difference between the slides is that the latter two have the images stacked on top of each other whereas the first slide has the images placed separately on the slide.  This is the advanced action for the first slide:
The decisions just refer to the images.  And this is the timeline:
Compared to one of the slides that doesn't work (no images appear)
where again the decisions are just referrring to showing images, and the timeline for this slide:
As I said they both look the same to me apart from the layering of images on the second slide. Any help much appreciated!

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