Just a couple of thoughts to expand on Davids. This is a daily situation for us. The logical answer is indeed Creo sees the data as having been regenerated (and then somehow changed). Why could that be? Our primary case is that we make a load of external relationships (often because we're dirty modellers) and we also modify sub-components continually AND then we pull into our workspace the LATEST configuration (which has unlikely ever existed before). In truth it's amazing that any of our assemblies ever regenerate green. Another massive situation is 'live shrinkwraps' (OMG) and 3D cable harnesses that directly reference the undelying systems (can you imagine how messed up that is). BTW, The adhesive part you show in your image sounds like one of those things users like to make related to the surrounding geometry, i can almost imagine someone liking the fact that they can easily make the dab of glue in that corner by sweeping along the edge of a component or something. Associativity is such a great tool in the hands of those that know what it means. Sadly most mortals fall short and so I propose that we have to have a combat strategy instead....we semi-successfully combat this by encouraging the use of turning off the dependencies on these external data sharing features (by the time you get to release anyway). We also have encouraged the use of workspace lock to stop ourselves from using the continue feature and making more work at check-in time. Sadly i think the ultimate solution (users that make clean data) is a bit of a dream for us. We're waiting for PTC to give us a feature whereby objects in Windchill that are released SHOULD NOT REGENERATE without special permission from the driver. We'd also like a way to actually stop the user checking in 'yellow' or 'red' status assemblies. Anyone with the answer to that would be a great person for me to talk to.
These unwanted relationships we accidentally make in Creo also prove to be fun when doing save as's by the way, another area that is deeply affected by user modelling practice.