Jason Aubrey gave me the fix. In case anyone ever has the same issue, we had a version of 2.5.1.1 that had missed the patch documented here:
https://github.com/openwebwork/webwork2/commit/d42b671eb7e42289d7ea1e76647570d3d48d91cb
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