Angie,
Glad I could help but don't feel bad, it took me a while to discover this problem. I went on a local ride that was routed on a part of a trail that was under construction. The dirt would have been ok but it rained the morning of the ride. I had to walk through the muck, didn't have cleat covers and spent the rest of the ride trying to clean the mud out of my cleats with sticks and my car keys. Two months later I was still having problems. I got so frustrated that I sat in the sun and looked carefully at my cleats. That's when I discovered the mud still caked in that space above the spring. A good cleaning solved the problem. I always make sure my covers are in my bike bag, just in case.
Kathi