Robohelp AIR search highlights wrong words

Hi,
I tried generating other layouts (Webhelp Pro, Microsoft Help), but I only saw this behavior with AIRHelp. When searching for a word (for example "Adobe") it highlights the wrong sections in the text. See screenshot:

Ok. So I ran it from my home PC, which has Win XP and had never had any version of Robohelp installed. The AIR would not run at first because
I supposedly did not have the right JRE version to create the certificate. But then I installed the new JRE version and then generated the AIR help file and observed the same problem with the wrong highlighted words after a search.
Now, I am wondering, how did you, Peter, get it to work correctly? Did you also install Robohelp 9 through download from the Adobe web site? Or do you have a different version and how can I get that version? I have a suspicion that the AIR help is based on the Javahelp Java code, because I observed the same problem with JavaHelp, can you perhaps ask about that?
Thanks,
pb3579

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