As instructed, I have recreated another page, after page 12, retyping all the text, instead of copying pasting from the page I am having trouble with, which is page 12. The element manager is not displaying at all on this new page, which is page 13. At least on page 12 the element manager displays, although the check marks that tell me if they are visible in design mode are still placed over the element titles, instead of being on the right side. At this point, it looks like any page I create after page 11 is being troublsome.
The only thing I can think of right now on my end, is to go and check my background image file and see if that is faulty.

I rebuilt a new page with 8 text elements and 2 graphic, and deleted the orginal page 12.  Here is what I'm running into: The element manager does open from both access points, but the check marks that show if an element is visible in design mode, are on top of the element titles, instead of over on the right side.
The very last (or top layer) graphic element that I added is the close button. I set up the action set and when I run my app in interact mode, the close button isn't there at all. I made sure that "visible at run time" is checked. I seem to have a bug in the system after page 11.

After rebooting my computer I went back into my book app. I still cannot access the elelment manager from either area. The element manager icon is now in color on page menu, but still won't open.
It seems to be just this page 12. I'll copy and paste onto a new page next and see how that goes. 

To answer your questions:
Yes, I'm in design mode
I have tried to access the element manager in both places. It is grayed icon in both places as well.
There are not any elements blocking the element manager.
The types of elements on that page are background, 3 graphic and 6 text.
Since this problem relates the other page jumping issue I'm having and also asked about, I'm going to reboot my computer and see if it resolves these difficulties!

I have set all of it up just as you described, before I sent my questions above. I think I'll try deleting those actions and applying them to see if they'll finally work. I'll let you know! Thanks Inna.

That worked perfectly! Thank you!

I removed the condition on the intersection above. I added the action set as you just descriped above, to my animation and it doesn't run in interact mode. It doesn't show at all. I tried adding a show behavior, but all that did was show the first frame. Stumped!

One more thing. I am adding 6 more intersections (one for each piece) that involves a hidden counter.
I do have the counter already on my page. Visable in the Builder, but not at run time.
After the 6 is totaled up in the invisiable counter, I want to provoke a frame animation.
Here's what I have so far:
Element 1: small cat
Element 2: cloud cat
Intersection point: center
Behavior: Counter Add
Target: Counter
Increase By: 1
Conditions: {Page Counter} is {Value}
Element: Counter
Value: 6
Is this correct so far?
What do I then do to have to counter provoke the animation?

Thank you Inna!

Inna, at first I thought I wasn't getting understanding it all, but after re-reading again and again, it all became clear. Thank you!