OK, All, for anyone following this thread and wanting to know a work-around, here's what I came up with.
It accomplishes my three goals: 1) It lets me keep the parts linked to the score (rather than extracting them); 2) the score plays back correctly for proofing; and 3) the parts look right, with no broken multirests at the D.C. al Coda.
1. Enter the D. C. al Coda the way you normally would in the score, as Repeat Text. It will show up on the appropriate staves in the score, and in all the parts.
2. In the parts that have a multirest at the point of the text, you'll see the multirest contains all the blank bars but one, with a single whole rest bar after. Double-click the Repeat Text you just created, select all of it, and copy it to the clipboard (on a Mac, Cmd-C.) Then hide the Repeat Text. The multirest should immediately expand to include all the empty bars.
3. Make sure nothing is selected, then do Create:Text:Technique. The selection arrow will turn blue. Click on the bar line at the end of the multirest, and when you see the blinking cursor, paste (Cmd-V) the text in and adjust the size if necessary to match the repeat text in other spots.
4. Select the Technique Text you just entered and choose Show in Parts, which will hide it in the score.
Note that you will probably need to do steps 3 and 4 in the affected parts themselves, NOT in the score. When I entered the Technique Text in the score and then selected Show in Parts, I still got a broken multirest some of the time.
Hope some find this useful.
Lew Buckley
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