Animated .gif makes captivate crash

hello,
I have an animated .gif that I would like to use in my Captivate project, but unfortunately, it is making both my Captivate 6 and 7 crash on import.   The .gif plays just fine in my web broswer.  I can import other .gifs, and they animate fine, but this one won't.  I would very much like to use it because there is no other animation that I know of right that fits what I want to explain so perfectly.  
Can anyone help me use this .gif in my project? 

Hi Lieve,
I just dragged and dropped the .gif from here to my desktop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:4StrokeEngine_Ortho_3D_Small.gif

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