Unfortunately I'm not allowed to release the files to anyone outside our company.
I wish I had placed a bet on that. Tell your management that for me this is like trying to repair your car and you refusing to bring it in to the garage. Either you become a mechanic or your car is useless. I'm sure Adobe's product manager would vouch for me if that helps you.
Otherwise we are down to not much left. I would suggest searching in a different way but different tags create the same problem. I cannot readily think of anything else except importing all your topics into a new project OR the old half and half routine. You create a copy and trash half the content, then generate. Same problem? Create another copy and trash the other half then generate. Either you will find a point at which the problem goes away so the cause is in what you just trashed or you will end up with one topic and then create another project anyway.
Sorry but that's about it. Please post back if you do resolve it.
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