I did as suggested above, and there was an impact to the issue. As suggested below, I did lose all my preferences and settings, but when I create a new project now and insert a smart shape with effect it appears to play smoothly. Unfortunatley the project I was working on wan't fixed, so I had to start from scratch. Now however the most frustrating thing is happening. With my skin I have a custom play/pause button which is built quite simply using advanced actions - you know - on pause hide the pause button set the pause variable to 1 and show the play button. This worked a treat in the original project but for some unknown reason doesn't seem to work at all in the new project... no pause... no switching of buttons. There is a home button on the same page which calls to advanced action and it works fine... ah!
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