Copy-Pasted Object Reopening Original Document

Ok. I made an object with rollover and click states in one document, then copied it into another document. I did a bunch of futsing to make it work as a multi-state object (since my on-click states got lost when transfered to digital publishing, which kinda made sense). Now whenever I try to drill down to edit the object by double clicking, it opens the document that I originally coppied from.
I have no idea if I did something weird or even what to look for, so let me know if there's more information I can provide. If it's "a feature, not a bug", please tell me how to turn it off.
Thanks,
-T

Nope. No Hyperlinks. It was a button, but only with rollover states. No external addresses associated with it. And the button part was nixed anyway.

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