Master slide and object animations

Hi,
I have a problem. If I apply an animation on some object on a slide, when I play the presentation, the objects on the master slide disappear. This doesn't happen if I apply a transition on the whole slide.
I tried to play my presentation on a different machine, a macbook, and there is no problem.
I don't think this is a misconfiguration because if I use two monitor, I can see all the object on the monitor for the speaker, but the problem yet remain on the monitor for the presentation.
Is there anyone have an idea about the reason?
thank you

If it is working on a different machine, it may be there is something wrong with your current install of iWork. I would suggest deleting all the iWork preferences files (located in your Library, in Preferences, delete all of the "com.apple.name" files that have "iWork", "Pages", or "Keynote" in their name), and then re-install the software.
As an intermediate step, you might try creating a new user account, and see if the problem appears on that account. If not, I'd suggest deleting the preferences in your original account, as indicated above, and see if that solves things.

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