Scrollable text issues

Hi everyone,
I'm about to convert a book to be used on an iPad. The book consists of several chapters/articles that range from 4 to 30+ pages.
On some of the pages I work with scrollable text.
My workflow is the same as described here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/digitalpubsuite/using/WS67cb9e293e2f1f605e 8ea44412b13edc5ec-8000.html
Most of the times it works as promised, but sometimes it doesn't! I have try to find out why it sometimes doesn't work. It seems random and it's driving me crazy.
I have experimented with creation order, i.e. container frame first, then text frame, etc.
I have done tests with renaming the container frame and text frame in the layers pannel
I have made sure that both frames are correctly aligned, etc.
I have reset and re-applied the Pan Only option in the Overlay Creator panel
I have made sure that the workflow and settings are the same on all pages
but still it sometimes simply doesn't work!
I would really appreciate if someone could help me with this. Any ideas?
Kind regards
Tim

Hi Bob,
I have tested again.
In a short article (4 pages) everything works just fine in horizontal and vertical layout.
However in a long article (41 pages) the vertical scrolling of text in the horizontal layout simply doesn't work except a one exception. I have checked all the settings - they are identical.
The strange thing is that if I preview the horizontal layout in the ADOBE Content Viewer all the scrolling works just fine, but as soon as I add the complete article consisting of horizontal and vertical layout to the folio things stop to work.
This is really frustrating. Maybe it's necessary to re-think the layout and avoid scrollable content since it so unreliable.
Right now I have no idea how get this to work.
The tools I use are: InDesign CS5.5 on OSX 10.6.8, FolioPanel-CS55-12_1_3, FolioProducerTools-CS55-1-9-1
Any help would be apprechiated.
Kind regards
Tim

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