Upgrading projects from Cap 8 to Cap 9 sacrifices resume ability??

Who else has this problem?  Surely we are not the only ones.

We are attempting to update existing Cap 8 (Flash/HTML5, SCORM 1.2) projects on our LMS to Cap 9 (HTML5 only, SCORM 1.2) versions.  When we upload Cap 9 versions of the same projects into our existing LMS units, the projects don't load.  After troubleshooting quite a bit, and eventually working with our LMS provider, there seems to be a difference in the outputs between 8 and 9 having to do with progress tracking.

Here's what we heard from our LMS provider.  They suggest we report this to Adobe support:

"When the user progresses in the Captivate 8 content, the content stores a value in the SCORM's “suspend_data” field like the following:

B1A%24nP1A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP000AA0000C-1A0DQText_Entry_Box_1BATcpQuizInfoStudentIDBAVcpQuizInfoStudentNameAPFeleki%2CKleoniki

When Captivate 9 is used, then the value is almost the same, but includes an additional string at the end:

B1A%24nP1A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP0A%24nP000AA0000C-1A0EQText_Entry_Box_1BATcpQuizInfoStudentIDBAVcpQuizInfoStudentNameAPFeleki%2CKleonikiQcpQuizHandledAllBA$_#-#_$

Notice that the 2 values are almost identical, but the latter ends at QcpQuizHandledAllBA$_#-#_$

The error comes from the fact that Captivate 9 expects this value, but progress stored with Captivate 8 doesn’t return it. If we manually append the missing string, everything works as expected. Otherwise, when it’s missing, a javascript error inside the file CPM.js happens, at the point where it expects this string."

When testing this scenario on SCORM Cloud, we get these parser warning, but the project does load (it just starts at the beginning of the project rather than resuming.):

• The external metadata referenced at /courses/BBFTD31IRC/C8_FlashandHTML5_4.1_intro_to_ordering_and_optimizations8b93f78b-d3fa-4a8f-a776-7421664fef8c/0\metadata.xml could not be opened. The specific exception was: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /courses/BBFTD31IRC/C8_FlashandHTML5_4.1_intro_to_ordering_and_optimizations8b93f78b-d3fa-4a8f-a776-7421664fef8c/0
  (Is a directory).
• The external metadata referenced at /courses/BBFTD31IRC/C8_FlashandHTML5_4.1_intro_to_ordering_and_optimizations8b93f78b-d3fa-4a8f-a776-7421664fef8c/0\metadata.xml could not be opened. The specific exception was: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /courses/BBFTD31IRC/C8_FlashandHTML5_4.1_intro_to_ordering_and_optimizations8b93f78b-d3fa-4a8f-a776-7421664fef8c/0
  (Is a directory).
• The external metadata referenced at /courses/BBFTD31IRC/C8_FlashandHTML5_4.1_intro_to_ordering_and_optimizations8b93f78b-d3fa-4a8f-a776-7421664fef8c/0\metadata.xml could not be opened. The specific exception was: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /courses/BBFTD31IRC/C8_FlashandHTML5_4.1_intro_to_ordering_and_optimizations8b93f78b-d3fa-4a8f-a776-7421664fef8c/0
  (Is a directory).
• The file referenced by the href attribute could not be found. href = index_scorm.html

Our lessons are set with "Never Send Resume Data" unchecked. After learning about the code difference between 8 and 9, we tried checking "Never Send Resume Data" on the Cap 9 version of the course, and that resolved the course loading issue, but then we lose the ability to resume the course where we left off.

So, is this a bug?  Should we report it?

Or, if we must check "Never Send Resume Data" to make the Cap 9 versions work in our existing LMS units, is there another way to have the lesson resume where the user left off?

Thanks for your shared wisdom!