Extra words keep appearing in some topic titles

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Something very odd keeps happening to a couple of my topics. The topic title is supposed to be "Copy Buildings or Structures", and when I have the topic open in Word for editing, the topic properties display correctly. But when I access the topic properties from the RoboHelp Explorer window, the topic properties display "placePlaceNameCopy PlaceTypeBuilding or Structure". I've corrected the properties and saved the document, but it keeps reverting back to that strange name.
I even deleted the topic (heading only since I didn't want to have to recreate the content) and recreated the topic with the same name, but the problem came back.
Luckily, this doesn't seem to affect the Webhelp output and this problem is invisible to the end user, but I'm just curious if anyone has seen this and knows what it's doing...?

Hi Brenda
Take a look at the link below. Specifically, you are likely interested in Snippet number 52.
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