Can't preview - the solution is bizarre

As a long-time Mac publishing specialist (more than 20 years) I have to say I'm finding iBooks Author frustrating. I'd like to relate a particular problem I've been wrestling with and have found a workaround for, although it's peculiarity still leaves me scratching my head. Please add your insight.
I had a relatively straightforward document of about 30 pages that I was able to preview on the iPad.
I then began to get the unhelpful error message "Can't preview".
I tried all the usual problem-solving techniques: deleting images in case one was corrupt; selectively removing then restoring chapters; copying into a new document first one half then the other of the chapter that seemed to be the source of the problem. (A public thanks to Fabe for posting his Plain Generic Empty Template -- it helped a lot.) The usual time-consuming troubleshooting.
At last I identified the cause but I still can't believe it.
This textbook has "Reflection activities" -- short snippets I wanted to highlight in the design.
Each has a small heading. I created a paragraph style called "Reflection top" -- bold with a rule above.
Then come a small but variable number of reflections, only the last of which needs a rule below. So I created two styles, one called "Reflection" (no rules), the other called "Reflection bottom". It looks like this:
Reflection top
Reflection
Reflection
Reflection bottom
If I pasted one of these "blocks" into the new document it would not preview. If I either deleted the text styled "Reflection" or restyled those paragraphs into, say, "Body" it would preview. It only previews if in either the source document or the destination document no text uses the style "Reflection".
This is bizarre. There is nothing unusual or complex in the style "Reflection"; it's actually simpler than the two complementary styles. Can anyone offer an insight?
I'm on the verge of saying iBA is too randomly glitchy for it to be trusted for any serious production work. It took me hours to work around something so impenetrably random.

I'm having a nightmare with rules at the moment myself.
I'm doing something very similar, in that I'm adding in text with rules at the start and end, which are created using styles. My problem, however, isnt that it won't preview, but rather the preview doesn't match what I have on screen. When it previews, the immediate look is correct, but it then quicklly changes to incorrect (the rule which should be at the top appears in the middle of the paragraph). The correct version is viewable in the navigation bar, but when this scales up, it is incorrect again.
SVGs seem to be used by Apple in a whole host of odd situations, and the way in which items look different on screen sometimes to how they appear on the iPad seems to support this (and is massively frustrating.)
Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
Many Thanks,
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