Video Layers Reversed (V1 over V2)

I was working on a video today, and had an AI cat I needed to keep still, so I overlayed the video (V3), split the scene (to where I didn't want the cat to move), then cut out the cat. I then put a hold on V2. Nothing I haven't done before. 

But in this issue, the video wasn't showing the cat moving. 

I hid V3 and no change, but when I hid V2, the cat moved again. 

When I did research, I saw this post, but it was not resolved. https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/video-tracks-stacking-in-reverse-obscure-setting-or-error/m-p/12615504#M386178

I deleted media cache, and no change. The "Composite Preview" was checked. No change. 

Here's the kicker - I opened another project, imported the video and did the same thing. The video layers worked exactly as expected. 

This is a rather new project, but I have already built up several videos and don't want to lose the work. 

Is there a setting that reverses the Video Layers? 

Video is attached.