Can't Edit in Captivate

I have a brand new Technical Communication Suite installed,
but Captivate seems to malfunction. I can open the program and
apparently record stuff, but when the recording is stopped I should
be able to see thumbnails and tabs with functions for editing etc,
but they never appears. No thumbnails and no editing environment.
Only the initial screen for for recording. I have tried differenct
approaches - I have uninstalled/reinstalled - cleaned up harddisk
and removed old tmp files etc. I run XP and everything is
up-to-date. but the problems with Captivate persists. Can anybody
help?

Hi Bjorn
Had a look at the link you put down and that is the first
screen you should see in Captivate. In the options available to you
on the screen you should then be able to select "Open" and browse
to a file that you have created which will then allow you to open
up the editing views for Captivate. If none of this works, then
there is probably an installation problem with the software.
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 3\Samples contains the
samples as supplied with the software, so you might want to try and
open one of those first to check your installation.
hope this helps
Andrew

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