Extra Table of Contents entry

Has anybody seen an issue with iBooks Author where they get an extra blank Table of Contents entry at the beginning of the book?
In iBooks Author, my TOC shows 10 entries. Yet when it is exported to ibooks format, the ibook contains 11 TOC entries, with the first one being blank.
The template I used has a placeholder for Intro Media which I did not use, and I'm wondering if this is part of the problem. Yet I can't find anywhere to disable putting Intro Media into the book, and because the TOC entry is blank, I can't tell what it is actually trying to point to.
Thanks,
Katrina

I believe it was the first example. Here's a screenshot that sort of illustrates the problem.
Chapter 1 - Introduction, is actually the 4th TOC entry, but is the 5th highlighted dot on the bottom (there are title, copyright, and dedication pages prior). I don't have a screenshot of what's displayed when the first dot is highlighted (the error condition). Note a total of 11 dots at the bottom.
Interestingly, the following screenshot comes from the same reading session, I believe, and the TOC looks fine.
When I asked my tester to try to obtain a screenshot of the blank entry, he reloaded the file and the problem had disappeared. Note the now correct 10 dots at the bottom, with title page correctly highlighted as first.
So, thanks for your help KT, but I'm going to have to chalk this one up to an unreproducible glitch, or something strange on first-time loads. Reminds me of the infamous software testing line: "works on my machine". ;-)

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