PSE 9 (Mac) Organizer - Category Tag shows no pictures

I have tagged all my photos and have my heirarchy set. If I click on an upper level tag, the organizer automatically "clicks" all the subordinate tags, and shows me all the pictures for those tags.
However, if I click a category tag, The organizer automatically "clicks" the subordinate tags as above, but tells me there are no matching photographs.
Shouldn't I see all the photos in that category?

Thanks,
I am in Thumbnail view, and I checked all of the items in the link you provided. I looked closer, and found that it is only the People category that has problems. I moved some of the sub-categories to another temp holding category, and found that the problem disappeared when some combinations of sub-categories were moved. But when all of the subcategories were moved to the new holding category, then the new one failed as well. So there must be something about the specific set of circumstances in my library that is causing this to occur. I think I'll just forget it for now and see if the problem still exists in the next release.

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