Flash Help Index search hangs on "a"

If you use the keyword search on the Index tab of a FlashHelp
site (RoboHelp6), it works fine until you try to return to the "a"
part of the list. Typing "a" hangs up the search and you have to
refresh the page for anything to work again.
Here's the pattern:
1. User searches for a letter that is not "a" on the Index
tab
2. User then type "a" in the Index tab's entry field and
presses Enter. The whole page hangs up and won't do anything until
you refresh the page.
Has anyone else experienced this? Are there any fixes?

Okay...after four hours or so of uninstalling/reinstalling, I
finally figured it out. Vista wanted me to run it as an
administrator. For whatever reason, that must've been what was
causing the weird lock-up. It works fine if I do that. Funny thing
was I wasn't running it as administrator last week. Must be a
stupid Microsoft update.
Oh, well....

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