Captivate 8 crashes when pasting a text caption or slides in a responsive project. Solutions?

This version of Captivate has been fairly reliable, at least compared to versions 1-4 that I have worked with previously, however, five minutes into my first responsive project, I am getting fatal errors when I try to paste any text caption between slides. I also get fatal errors when trying to paste slides between responsive projects.
Has anyone experienced this, and more importantly, does anyone have a solution?
I am running Windows 8 SP1, Intel I7

For posterity, seems like there are issues with certain custom captions and responsive projects. After reinstall, clearing every cache I am aware of, and running the clean preferences .bat, my custom captions no longer appear in the properties window, and I am able to copy stock captions between slides.
Not sure if the reinstall was necessary or not. Here are the folders that appeared to cache data and the location of the .bat
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\utils\CleanPreferencesWin.bat"
"C:\Users\Brom\AppData\Local\Adobe\Captivate 8.0"
"C:\Users\Public\Documents\Adobe\eLearning Assets\Layouts"
If anyone has input as to what might make a custom caption crash a responsive project, I'd be interested. I wouldn't have bothered with custom captions, except that the stock ones are so amateurish.

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