Advanced Action jumps Quiz slide pause point

Hello,
I have a project I have asked questions about in a previous discussion but as this is a new difficulty so I have started a new discussion.
The project in made up of only quiz slides and on each quiz slide there are:
1 - 4 text boxes that are controlled by advanced actions with ss set as buttons....this part is working great.
the quiz ...standard stuff
and audio ...not working
I created 2 groups and 1 ss set to function as a button. Group 1 has an arrow and says "Play Audio" Group 2 has a square and says "Stop Audio". On the first slide the action works great...just as I would like it to work. After answering the question you then continue to the next slide and the audio works for three clicks...click to play, click to stop and then if you click again the slide jumps the pause point on the question slide and none of the buttons work on the slide at all. It does not make a difference if you start the project form the beginning or from the middle, the problem is still the same. The first slide works just as it should and the second slide jumps the pause point and you are shut down and can not continue. I am not able to click the submit, answer the question...nothing. Any insight would be very much appreciated as once again, I am stuck. I am not sure if the problem is caused by the fact that it is a quiz slide and there is something about the quiz slide itself that is causing the problem. Or ... more likely, I am just missing something.
Thank you.
This is what the buttons look like.
Play Pause Action:
http://captivatecrazy.blogspot.ca/2012/09/play-and-pause-audio-using-advanced.html
Advanced Actions and Groups, this was so helpful!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Sy09xPoP69A

You didn't watch the other video? It was about playing audio as well...Have also a long blog post about possible scenarios to play/pause audio. It is different, because it is about a real pause, not about replaying an audio clip as in your example:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/toggle-shape-buttons
Question slides are a different beast, you have always to be very careful there. I blogged about buttons on question slides:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/want-a-button-on-question-slide-in-captivate
The question slide objects have highest priority. I should explore this more in depth, but my intuition tells me that perhaps clicking on your shape button triggers the action that is performed as second step on the Question slide (press Y or click on the slide). Does it happen before of after the user clicks the Submit button?
Lilybiri

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