Editing Encore Menu in Photoshop Weirdness

I have a menu in Encore CS5 and I edit it in Photoshop.  However, when it is brought back into Encore, the layers that I edit show up as black.  It is freaking awful.  I have lost a lot of work several times.  What could be the cause of this?
Thanks!

Thanks guys.  I have also seen the issue where Encore is not updated and it takes a few more saves in photoshop.
What I am seeing is that when I go to the updated version in Encore some of the layers go black (or gray as I am seeing this minute).
Here is an image of the photoshop file: http://99.4.78.197/ps.png
At first, it shows up correctly in Encore:
http://99.4.78.197/encore1.png
But as soon as I change the End Action (either setting it initially or changing it) it becomes like this:
http://99.4.78.197/encore2.png
In this case it became gray, usually it is black.  To confuse things further, sometimes this happens without changing the links and affects all the layers named '(%) thumbnail'.
My best guess is that there is some weird caching issue with the temp file and previous files but the inner workings are opaque to me.
Thanks again for all your help thus far......

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