Can't Resize a Thumbnail?

...and isn't that what I'm supposed to be able to do with the "Thumbnail" slider in the Button Info pane?
If I drag an image into the little "Custom thumbnail" zone just below that slider, it immediately appears both there and inside the button on my main menu. Moving the "Size" slider located just below that magnifies or reduces the entire menu button, but has no effect on the size of the thumbnail WITHIN the button itself.
But moving the Thumbnail slider doesn't seem to do anything -- unless I slide too far to the left and the image suddenly goes to black, or too far to the right and the image is suddenly replaced by a generic folder icon.
Have tested with several different images of different sizes and proportions, and the results are always the same. Which makes me wonder:
1) Is there in fact any way to resize a thumbnail which has been dropped into that "Custom thumbnail" spot (relative to the menu button in which it now appears)?
and
2) If not (aside from that being an obvious Feature Request), then what the heck is that "Thumbnail" slider control in the Button Info pane (and which also appears on its own when you just select the menu button into which the image is now being displayed) supposed to be for?
This is the last thing I need to set before burning, so any suggestions would be welcome!
Thanks,
JB
P.S. -- just noticed that when I move that slider control -- even though nothing appears to change on screen (and regardless of whether I'm looking at the menu with the motion on or off), the Undo info under the File menu refers to "Set Button Thumbnail Time". But I still don't get it, since I only seem to be able to drag a single image into the "Custom thumbnail" zone, and the Thumbnail slider control still appears to do nothing useful. Yet it must be there for a reason?

The + sign is usually associated with a Text Box that is not big enough to see all the text. It will show up even if there is just an extra return, so you may be able to see all your text but added an extra return in there and that is causing the text box to think there is something you can't see. You can ungroup everything and select the text box and make it bigger and click at the bottom to see if there are extra lines you can delete.
Then if you want to be able to resize everything, including text, at once, select the grouped item, open Preview and get a New From Clipboard (command n or File>New From Clipboard). Copy this and paste back into Keynote. You will not be able to change the text, but it will resize with the image.

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