Promoted parts not showing up in BOM

The "promote" option for the BOM seems extremely particular.  I discovered today that when a subassembly is set to promote parts in the BOM, it only works when the subassembly is in the Default configuration.  This is very limiting and annoying.  Has anyone found a work-around for this, or is there some box to check or uncheck, or a programmer to shoot?  This is the second bug I've found in the "promote" command and it's getting extremely annoying.

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