You asked if I had odd items in the element and animation names like apostrophes, no I do not...I know apostrophes are not my friend.

they are actually titled:

"bell anim A" for the animation and "clear flower tap A" for the element. The subsequent copies of each of these have the same name but the letter changes  C,D,E,F,G,B for each copied item.

do you delete the folder or just empty it?

Yes, frame animations with an  'invisible" element on top set to a tap action to animate the frame animation below

Ranco,   are your layers loading in order?  When I bring mine in they pull in together as an animation but they are in a jumbled order so I have to manually reassign the image to the proper layer.

Hi Melissa,   this may be overkill but it is what i do,  I leave my original psd file alone so I may keep all options open to me then copy it and convert the copy...sometimes i have a few copies saved with different outcomes but my original with layers is protected and if i don't like the copy in the trash it goes and back to the orginal.  I have large MB'itis too and always looking for ways to make the apps a usable size. I had to scrap my character doing a chicken dance in an app just couldn't get it small enough; someday i'll try eliminating a few frames in between to see if it doesn't look too choppy but right now working on other frustrating things and the chicken dance will have to wait :-). 

Hi Ezra,

I put the file in the dropbox and sent you a link.  I made a test pg not a text app (next time I will do it on a separate app when I do a test)  the test pg is pg 9.  Thanks for helping. 

Ann