Animated Gif - States All Affected At Once

I normally use Fireworks to make animated gifs, but recently (not sure what happened) all of my states have decided to combine or group together and I can no longer edit each state individually. If I move anything (symbols, layers, etc), then all states are affected by it. I noticed that when I have anything selected in one state, then all of the circles to the right of the delay time in the state menu are filled in at once. I'm sure this is a simple fix, but I can't seem to figure it out. Help?

I should add the following.
To try again I create a new document and simply import the animated gif. It's 38 states long. Before adding any other elements I enable "Show all states" and move the element downwards on the page. It moves. No problem. The loop plays in the new position.
But, I don't really know where I want to position the gif until I add the other elements.
So I disable "show all states", select State 1, select Layer 1 in Layers, and add the text and a png to layer 1. As expected, these additions appear only on state 1.
I then enable "Show all states" ("multi-state editing is still enabled"), select the layer for the animated gif, and again click on the animated gif and move it. This time I see the ghost image of a later frame below and behind it. When I play the loop the new position occurs only on frame 1 - otherwise, it's in the lower position in all other states.
Is this is a bug in Fireworks CS6? I can move an object "globally" when no other objects are on the page but once I add some to state 1, moving an object in all states at once doesn't work.
During one iterration of this test the move occured in all frames but number 24! (what!?) Seriously, basically the same steps, I don't recall ever even going to state 24. But when I played the animation everything was in proper position except for 24.

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