Audio editing on individual slides goes wonky

I record each of my slides separately with the audio attached to the slide itself so that audio is never broken across multiple slides.
This usually requires that I touch the audio on each slide at least once, in order to control the timing at the beginning and end.  I generally find that 8 ms of silence before I begin speaking and 8ms after creates a nice transition to the next slide (and topic).
The problem (I think) is that the audio track in Captivate is actually continuous and so my action of cutting a section from the audio track or adding something to the audio track on one slide seems to affect the entire project and mess up my timing on both the slide I am working on and on other slides.
Here's an example:
http://screencast.com/t/4GIWeETOkrgd
As you can see, I count off 8ms and remove the long pause at the beginning of the slide.  Then I insert silence instead of background noise, save, and reopen the audio. 
All of my work is gone and the audio is almost to the edge of the slide.  Fortunately, I haven't lost any audio (this happens sometimes).  But I have to reinsert 8ms of silence, then resave and hope for the best as I move on to the next slide.  At the end of the project, I have to visually check each slide again to make sure that audio has not magically moved around or been cut off.
What's going on and how can I do this more efficiently?  It's bad enough to have to edit each slide in order to have the right level of control.  But then to find my hard work gone ... it's very discouraging!

Hi Lilybiri, this might not be the correct thread but I couldnt find exaclty what I'm after. My apologies if this is not the right place.
I'm creating a course with supporting audio narration, a narration audio file attached to each slide. Some of these slides have video with audio too.
I was wondering if there is a way for the user to turn off the narration audio on a slide, without muting the videos?
I was hoping this could be done through a button?
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