Text animation not working in Captivate 5

Hi there -- I am seeing some strange results and need some help troubleshooting.
I have one project and on the first slide I have an image, a text animation, and video.  I view it and everything plays perfectly.  Here is what the timeline and properties looks like:
I removed the video and resaved the project under a different name.
But when I preview the movie, it does not play the text animation.  When I play it from the timeline I do see the text and the animation.  But when I preview the project and publish and view the movie the text animation is not included.
This is are the settings in the second project (which match the first b/c I simply saved the project as a different name).
I added another text animation to the second project and that also did not play in preview or after publishing.  But the first project works fine.
Any ideas on why text animation would be playing in one project but not another project?
Thanks!

Text Animation works in one and not in the other.  It doesn't matter the order in which it is located on the slide.
I have been doing more tests and just ran into an interesting bug.
I recreated the original steps:
1) Take the working .cptx (which has graphics, text animation,  and video)
2) Resave under a new name
3) Remove the video
Everything seemed to be working fine.  When I previewed, the text animation works.
Then I published using two different settings:
Version 1:  Externalize Skin, AutoPlay, No Preload
Version 2:  Nothing External, AutoPlay, Preload
Weird thing is with version 1, the skin is externalized as a separate swf, and it does not play the title text animation.
But version 2, when nothing is set to be external it plays fine.
They are both being published from the same exact .cptx only difference is how I published.

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