Subpanels not working properly in built application

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Hi - have a Labview UI calling sequences from TestStand of which I display in a subpanel using the trace event to show vi panel.  Works fine in the development environment, but as an exe(even on my development machine), the vi front panel shows, but not in the subpanel.  I have heard referencing the vi as strict may help, but I do not know what vi will be running as there are several sequences in a public directory with all different types of vis.  I also cannot include in the project because it is a UI only, other developers will have different sequences and should not have to recompile the UI project.  One clue, when I run from the dev environment, the sequence loads like it would in Test Stand:

But , when built, for every test, I'll get

I have looked for a solution but nothing yet.  Interestingly, when I display the test result (which is a strict ref), it works fine in the exe but it still loads like the second image.  Any ideas?  thanks