[thejeff]

I've never seen this.
Are you saying it skips them permanently? That is, doesn't target them at all, despite a lack of other targets? Or is it just delaying them for later, preferring to target a province with less sites or less searching done?
In SP, I rely on the auto monthly casting regularly and when I look through my provinces with F1 after the autosearch runs out of targets, I don't think I've ever seen skipped provinces. I haven't played on Cradle much, so if it's something map specific, I could have just not run into it. That would be a weird bug though.