Audio doubling in imported SWFs

I am currently putting a Captivate presentation together by designing each slide in Flash, publishing the SWFs and then importing the SWFs into Captivate. Of the 30 or so SWFs I need to import, I've only managed to get about 3 slides imported before this problem started. I have audio and narration embedded into the SWFs instead of bringing them directly into Captivate in order to more easily set animation timings based on the narration. I'd like to keep it that way, though I know including the audio in Captivate only would likely solve the issue.
In my first 2 slides, the audio included in the SWFs sounds fine. By the third slide, my SWF audio is suddenly doubling, starting and then starting again about 1/2 a second later. This is evident even in the small preview thumbnail that plays when you click on the SWF in the library.
As a test, I removed the narration audio from the first SWF I had trouble with and tried importing it into Captivate again, and there was no audio problem. I removed and then replaced the audio within Flash, republished, and the audio issue was still there, doubling up on itself with a 1/2 second delay.
Publishing settings for the first two slides are exactly the same as the third slide. I've even imported further slides to see if the problem persists with them, and it does.
I'm at my wit's end. Does anybody have any suggestions?

FIXED. What an odd solution.
After much futzing around, I ended up trying to change the Flash Player the SWFs were being published for to Flash Player 9. I got the notification that the TLF Text inside the FLA file was not supported in Flash Player 9, so it would be converted to Classic Text.
I did so, republished the file and I had no audio echo!
As a test, I tried publishing under Flash Player 11, but still changed the TLF text to Classic text. No audio echo!
I changed the text back to TLF and republished. Audio echo returned!
I have NO idea why, but the presence of TLF text in a FLA file will bugger with audio.
So there you have it.

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