Aggregator – TOC stretching issues

Hi all,
I have four captivate projects that I’m loading via the Aggregator. (master4agtest, agtestPart1, agtestPart2, agtestPart3). When I publish the aggregator project as a swf or a Windows executable the following happens:
The TOC stretches vertically past the bottom of the swf files.
With the swf output files, I noticed that when I open each htm file separately they look like I expect them to look, that is, the bottom of the TOC is flush with the playbar. When I open the aggregated htm file, I get what you see above.
Is there a way to prevent the TOC from stretching in the aggregated htm file? Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere? Why does it do this?
I’m using Captivate 5.0.1.624 on Windows XP. I’ll be happy to post/share files if it will help!
Thanks,
PharmaGirl

I never really used the Aggregator myself, but I did a search here on the forums and it's pretty clear that you can't do anything at all to modify the way the aggregator works.
Apparantly it's not possible to remove the aggregator TOC and it's not possible to have the expander icon or make the TOC smaller.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/1995152#1995152
http://forums.adobe.com/message/205706#205706
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