Using 'Save As' in a self contained file is dropping elements

Hi there,
I am finding with a fully self-contained Keynote file containing placed audio, movie and images, when you do a 'save as' it says there is a problem saving some elements in the file and they drop off. However if I duplicate the original file in the finder, then open in Keynote, delete and edit some pages and do a straight 'save' it works fine!
Any suggestions would be most helpful so I can go back to doing 'Save As' - the more intuitive method of working.
Thank you,
Josh

That is a typical behavior of Keynote 3 that disappeared with upgrade to Keynote 4 in my case.
The respective files were probably rather aliased to some place (i.e., the trash), than stored in toto in the Keynote file. Again a problem of Keynote 3 not carried over to Keynote 4.
On the other hand, Keynote 4 is much slower with large files, unfortunately.

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