Alternate Layouts not flowing to iPad

I created a simple folio with three articles in CS6.
For each article I created horizontal and vertical alternate layouts for Kindle Fire, Android, and iPad.
The folios download to the Fire and the Xoom and display as expected. The iPad doesn't see the folio at all. Using most recent version of the Viewer 2.5.0.
Has anyone else seen this behavior? Am I (as per usual) missing something?
Thx
DMc

Yes, both the V and H are those dimensions.
I just went in and made a few corrections - making certain that no content was outside the guides. And then updated the articles, but it hasn't showed up in the Viewer.
I find it noteworthy that the Document Setup shows a page size of Kindle Fire/Nook in the pull down, and then in the Edit Page Size flyout menu of the Pages panel I have selected iPad. Might I have been better off creating the thing for iPad and then making the alternate layouts from that one?
I will create a new folio now with only the iPad layout, and see if it appears in the Viewer. If so, I will add the alternate layouts.
Finally, is "Alternate Layout" a synonym for "Rendition" now in CS6?

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