Problems Resizing Project (Captivate 5)

I am running into a strange problem and I was wondering if someone knew why the following was happening.
1) I capture my movie at 1280x720
2) I save it and rescale the project to 889x500 maintaining aspect ratio (which for some reasons ends up being 883x497 after saving)
3) I add the TOC in overlay mode. The open/close TOC arrows appear over the browser "x" close button which was not clear so I resized the project so the open/close TOC arrows appear above the main movie (rescale project, uncheck "maintain aspect ratio", added 18 pixels to height, select "keep project the same size...", and positioned Bottom Center).
4) In edit mode, my mouse and keystrokes look fine
5) But when I preview or publish, my mouse moves what looks to be 18 pixels below where it should be. Plus the background acts strange. You will see in the screenshots below, in the upper left my mouse is clicking in the right place but the buttons are appearing 18 pixels higher (I think where they were originally located). You will also see the typing appear below where it should be in the box (and what I see in edit mode).
Any ideas why this is happening? Everything works fine prior to adding the 18 pixels to the top.
Thanks!

In Captivate content when you capture typing text on the screen it ends up as a special type of object that sits on it's own hidden layer and is set to be positioned from the top left corner of the screen. When you change this positioning reference by resizing your content, it doesn't affect the text typing layer in the same way as other content. So you end up with this issue.
If you really MUST do all this resizing (which can also get you into trouble with other Cp issues such as ghost lines) the workaround for the typing text issue is to right click on the typing in Edit mode, convert it to animated text, and then position that as needed.

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quitting, I said NO, don't save changes).
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