States not working correctly when published to the web

I have built a training course (proprietary, so I can't post it) that is not behaving normally when published to the web. A lot of the states are failing to show up or change. For instance, I have an object whose state is invisible until an earlier object is correctly placed on a drag'n'drop target. Then the second object (the invisible one) should become visible. Or I have some d'n'd objects that change colors depending on there location on the right or wrong drop target. In both cases, everything works fine when I take the course locally and when published to an Amazon web service site, but not to my company's server. Have others experienced this? Is there some setting I need to enable on the local server that would be affecting the states? Thanks.