Visibility Status of hidden files

I use the AutoText plugin for custom text, graphics, etc. to insert in my doc.
In FM7.2, the AutoText menu files Visibility Status was set to Hidden, and they did not show up anywhere in the general interface.
It seems that with Frame 8, they're no longer checking the visiblity status of the open documents before they populate the list in the Import window.
(Example: File > Import > Formats and then the hidden files are in the list.)
Can this be corrected, please?

I will be installing FM8 on my brand new system this weekend (still in the box as I type). At that point, I'll also be installing the other utilities I use, and I'll check after each one to see if perhaps one of them is causing the conflict.
Other plug-ins/utils in use:
FrameScript 5.0 (ElmSoft)
Archive Plug-in (Bruce Foster)
AutoText (Silicon Prairie)
Paragraph Tools (Silicon Prairie)
Character Tools (Silicon Prairie)
Readability Tools (Silicon Prairie)
PGF Whopper (CudSpan)
MarkerWorker (CudSpan)
ImportFormatsSpecial (Carmen Publ/Rick Quatro)
RunaroundNone (Carmen Publ/Rick Quatro)
ShrinkWrapAsIs (unknown)
Mif2Go (demo mode - to use the Wash Via Mif function) (Omsys)
-Carla

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