Show Merged TOC Option in Merged WebHelp

I am experimenting with merged WebHelp for my company's disaster recovery plans. There is a master company plan and then each department has its own dept plan. I have set up the merge using instructions from Peter's site. I'm running Robo 8.
When I generated the parent project, I did not select the "Show Merged TOC in Child Project" option, but all of the TOCs are still displaying in the merged output anyway. Is that how it's supposed to work? Eventually, I may want them to all display, but right now, I don't. I only want the TOC for the main child project to appear in the output. Is that possible?
See attached two screen shots.

Then you don't want that box ticked. The way it works is you generate all the outputs.
- If you open the start page of the parent, you will get all the TOCs showing as one.
- If you open the start page of a child, you will get just that child's TOC, unless you have ticked that check box when you will get the whole lot.
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