Aggregator seems to randomize quize questions from various project files

I am using Captivate 5.5.
I created 10 quizzes, each in its own captivate project. Each project has its own quiz ID and the question slides are randomized using one pool. 'when I publish each captivate project file, the quzi (swf file) the questions are fine.
However, when I aggregate all 10 files into an aggregate project, I get quiz questions from different project files...and the title slide doesn't even match the master slide for that quiz! For example, after aggregating the project file, my Ch 2 quiz would contain question slides from various chapters...and the
the title slide doesn't even match the chapter for that question.

When you use Question Pools, the SWF files for the pools are external to the SWF. The filenames for the question pools are taken from whatever you called the pool, with the letters _CQP on the end.
When you use Aggregator, all of the SWF files for each aggregated project file are placed in the same folder. Each project is not kept isolated in it's own folder.
So if any of your question pools happen to have the same name, they may overwrite one another when Aggregator compiles them into the same folder.
Go back into your projects and make sure you first give each published project file a unique name. Then append the name of each question pool with some extra letters that differentiate it from a similar pool in any of the other projects. Then republish everything again and build another Aggregated version from scratch. See if that resolves the issue.

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