Elemants disapearing in flash cs5 leaving empty symbols (Movie-Clips) where the elemnt once was.

Hi,
I work for with Flash CS5 for an advertising company. We make banners and my job is to animate them. Lately I have been having a weird issue.
When I work on a flash file all is well, I save export and all, but later when I come back to the file for modifications some of my elements are  disappearing?! Most of the elements are imported from illustrator CS5 and they seem OK when I leave but when I come back I see just empty Movie-Clips.Things seem to disappear without any logic, for example some text layers can disappear while some don’t.
This issue is frustrating since it's causing much work and I would really love to resolve it.
Can anyone guide me as to what I should do. I will gladly provide any info needed.
Thank you.

that's a task much easier to do using actionscript rather than use the timeline.  each location or parent location (if you want one parent for retail and one for residential etc) could have two keyframes.  one for highlighted locations, the other for non-highlighted.  you can timeline tween between the two keyframes, if you want.
your main timeline would not change frames.  clicking the retail toggle button would cause all retail locations to tween to the highlighted frame.  clicking it again, it should cause the retail locations to tween to the non-highlighted frame.
likewise for you other buttons and other locations.
this setup will remove the complications caused by having various combinations of buttons toggled on and off.

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