Adobe Captivate / External Files of integrated SWF

I have an Captivate File that contains an SWF, that loads an external XML File. The SWF works perfect / AS3 and the files are in the correct folder.
However, Captivate does not link to the relative path, that is given by the swf, but to a very strange temporary path in my documents.../local.../temp...:
Error #2044: ioError unverarbeitet. text=Error #2032: Stream-Fehler. URL: file:///C|/DOKUME%7E1/cpe/LOKALE%7E1/Temp/cp4Temp/%7ECa292/config.xml
at test_xml()
This is somewhat spectacular, since I didn't thought that captivate could top the main bug of not providing right-click opportunities on local machines without setting a trusted path (this file goes to customers...).
Whatever: I would be very thankful if someone would provide me with a solution for this bug, since I'm running towards a deadline and captivate confuses me with ridicoulous errors on problems that I would have never imagined of.

Hi again
All of it boils down to security. Thanks hackers! NOT!!!
Basically, if you will be deploying on CD-ROM, you need to trick Flash into thinking it is running from a server. This is easily overcome by using a freeware application called Server2Go.
Additionally, you need to ensure that the latest patch has been applied to Captivate, as it resolves some linking issues.
The process below should work to install Server2Go on CD-ROM
Download the Server2Go software from http://www.server2go-web.de/download/download.html
Choose the Micro package
This should result in receiving a zip file named distribute_apache1.3_micro.zip
Unzip the contents of the zip file to the root of your hard drive ( C:\ )
This should create a folder named distribute_apache1.3_micro
Open this folder and delete the following files and folders inside:
Files:
splash.bmp
logo.ico
readme.txt
Folders:
dlls
dbdir
cgi-bin
Open the htdocs folder and delete all files and folders inside.
Copy all of your Captivate output files to the htdocs folder
Rename the HTML page Captivate created to index.htm
Copy the contents of the distribute_apache1.3_micro folder to the CD-ROM and test!
Hopefully this helps! Rick
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