Publishing different than preview

I am working on a training video series about Moodle. I have carefully previewed the project to confirm that everything is timed correctly and matches the audio.
However, the published version displays something much different than the preview. Errors include:
- 1 slide displays smaller and in the top left corner instead of the full screen area, making all the highlights wrong
- images from one slide are staying around on another slide
- transitions (fade in/fade out) do not look right in the published version
What is going on?

I publish these videos in mp4 format.
I do not understand how the publishing mode would be the issue because I have successfully published over 20 videos using the same mp4 mode. These errors seem like a publishing bug that does not happen all the time.
Am I missing some kind of setting that will allow the publish to produce the same thing that I see when previewing my work?
Additional errors found with other recent videos:
- audio cuts in and out (plays correctly during preview)
- text does not appear (appears during preview)
Is there any way this could be a computer issue rather than a Captivate issue? It seems Captivate related since I am publishing from Captivate...sometimes the videos turn out right, sometimes they have these random errors. However, Captivate does run slowly on my computer - would that be a cause for publishing problems?
Thank you for any direction that you can provide.

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