Audio/Video skipping during certain slides

Hi All,
I have been working on a screen simulation and until yesterday everything played back smoothly in the preview and also published. Yesterday I made a couple of minor edits (replaced the audio on one slide (from Audacity), added a couple text captions, changed the font for several captions) and I started noticing skipping in the audio and video on a few slides (this happens in both preview and published). I have the filed saved in My Documents (not a network drive). I have two versions (one with no skipping from 2 days ago (A) and one from yesterday with the skipping (B)), and have be playing with both trying to find the root cause.
On version A I tried to recreate the changes I made to B, pausing to watch after every change to find the cause. It ended up being text captions I added to the bottom of half of the slides (simple text and says "Questions? Contact ...."). Without this text the project plays fine. Because verion B is more updated I figured if I just removed this text it would also get rid of the skipping. However, this did not work. Has anyone else had any problems with audio and video skipping (almost like a scratched CD) throughout projects? This project is not large (35 slides) and not overly advanced (software simulation) in Captivate 5 on Windows 7. Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

This may not relate to your issue since you said it also skips occationally, but still worth looking at...
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/audio/1001.shtml
In general, before going back to tape or to an iDVD project, I always extract all the audio as my final step.
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