Controlling the Display of Animations using Advanced Actions

Hi,
I'm using Captivate 5.5 and having a bit of difficulty being able to control animations that are conditional on variables. I'm not sure what the best workflow is...
I have set up five questions using the enhanced radio buttons widget and there is a 'tick' animation and a 'cross' animation next to each question which I want to play depending on whether the answer was correct or incorrect.
In advanced actions I have set up five conditional actions so, for instance, IF 'question1variable = correctAnswer' then show the tick animation and hide the cross animation (Else... vice versa). These actions are linked to a 'check my answers' button.
I have all the animations set to play for the duration of the slide, and this works fine except the playbar moves on (I need it to pause so that the students can keep reattempting the questions).
How do I stop the playbar from moving on, so that the student can reattempt the questions as many times as they like, and each time the 'check my answers' button is pressed, the correct animation plays? I've tried things like rdcmndGotoFrame = rdinfoCurrentFrame - 1 (and variations of!) however, in this case the playbar will pause but the display of the animations becomes unpredictable and buggy
Any solutions or ideas would be most appreciated
Thanks in advance
Rick

Don't know if you can make this work but I did a similar thing using an action. I made the slide jump to slide=itself, eg if the question is on slide 17, I set it to jump to slide 17, in effect looping the slide -- but the user wasn't aware that was what was happening.There was a button to move on when done, but they could play all day. My questions were set to give rather complex feedback for both right and wrong answers. User could check each question and see the feedback on each choice. Don't know. Maybe..... I used to do this using a javascript but now (5.5) you can select the current slide -- MUCH easier.

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