Captivate 8 theme overrides software simulation screen shots

Hello,
I created a customer theme for my company. I create a new responsive project and use the theme created. when I try to add a software simulation slide(s); the theme replaces the screen shots of the simulation. The mouse movements and button clicks are retained. When I change to a shipped theme, the software simulation screen shots appear. I do not know what setting to trigger to have the software simulation screen shots override the theme. Can you help?
Thanks,
Peter

Hmm, I suspect you deleted or edited the Blank daughter master slide that
is used by software simulation slides. Another user had the same issue a
while ago.

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