Saved from a downgrade - by a whisker!

Having upgraded via erase and install to Leopard 10.5.2 and to a sparkling new Intel iMac and to Keynote 4.0.2, freshly installed, it was with some trepidation that I opened the huge (over 1,000 slides) presentation I had been working on for the past three months. And it took but a few seconds to discover that my fears were justified.
Having initially been lulled into a false sense of security by the swift opening of the file - twice as fast as on my G4 TiBook running 10.4 - I then went to play the slideshow and to my horror, the slide advance commands (spacebar, mouse click) not only failed to advance but actually caused my presentation window to close.
Frantically, I tried several more times. The first slide would always display fine but every attempt to advance the show produced the same heart-stopping foreclosure.
Stupidly, I figured that Apple must have changed the slide advance commands so I went hunting in the user guide for confirmation. But of course they haven't.
So I rushed hotfoot over here to discover what new bug has been sent to plague us. Surprisingly, there was nothing on the first page about it so I ploughed on. Through ten more pages of posts -- full of interesting issues... but not one mentioning my bug. Surely I would not be the first to post about it?
Scratching my head, I sat back, lit a cigarette and sipped slowly on my Earl Grey. And as the nicotine and caffeine set to work, my brain finally shifted out of neutral (Sunday neutral actually which is more akin to reverse). I clicked back on my Keynote space and looked at my slidelist. Sure enough, when last saved, almost a month ago, the final slide of 1017 was selected -- and it is identical to the first slide.
Anticipating my relief, I clicked gingerly on slide 0001 and played the slideshow again. Not surprisingly, my opus advanced properly this time.
I had been ready to downgrade to Tiger, even to set aside my gleaming new widescreen iMac. Smart fellow that I am.
But at least I was smart enough to realise that this forum has all the answers -- even by omission!
Simon
Message was edited by: pr100

Great story! You did not mention your Time Machine backup or lack thereof...
Regards,

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