Swatch rollover consistency

I've created a custom swatch group and given the swatches individual names. The names are important because I use them to specify the names I've given to particular colors for a spec sheet I have to fill out. When the cursor rolls over the swatches, the names will pop up, which is great, and speeds things up for me a lot. The problem is that sometimes the rollover popups don't show up. Sometimes I can move the mouse around a bit, maybe click on a few things,and they'll start working again for a while, but sometimes that doesn't work for quite a while.
Is there any way of making this feature more consistent? I haven't detected any kind of pattern that may be causing the problem. It may be that it has nothing to do with Illustrator, and is caused by too much memory usage by other programs or something. I don't know.
I'd appreciate any ideas, thoughts or advice.
Thanks.

#rollover a {
border:none;
text-decoration:none;
padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; /**space between icons**/
position: relative; /**remove position rule if full size images will share the same display area. **/
Your CSS below expresses where on the page to display the disjointed image. You'll need to tweak left and top values to get it exactly where you want it.
#rollover a span {
    visibility: hidden;
    background-color: #FFF;
    display: block;
   position: absolute;
    /**adjust positioning of full size images in px or %**/
    left: 250px;
    top: -140px;
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Adobe Reader 9.0 and 8.1.2.
Mac OS X 10.4.11
Mac PowerPC G4
640 MB SDRAM
Does Adobe Reader have a search window phrase rollover, yellow-highlighted pop up page number bug displaying the wrong page in some circumstances?
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@section is only for resetting page number to 1 for every group and for that pdf and ppt will be fine but only for rtf u need to use that ( pressing F9).
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text-decoration:none;
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