Animation Export

I have just about had it with FireWorks. When I optimize and
export an animation in gif all my time sequences revert to 7/100.
What is going on? I went to the help menu and followed it word for
word over the past three days and it still will not export my GIF
animation. I know this is not a lot of info however I don't know
what to say, I followed the help text and still it screws me.
Help!

Rowdy,
When you change the timing on an individual frame make sure
that the
"include in when exporting" check box is checked.
alex
Rowdy Roy wrote:
> I have just about had it with FireWorks. When I optimize
and export an
> animation in gif all my time sequences revert to 7/100.
What is going on? I
> went to the help menu and followed it word for word over
the past three days
> and it still will not export my GIF animation. I know
this is not a lot of info
> however I don't know what to say, I followed the help
text and still it screws
> me. Help!
>

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