Camtasia recording of Flash CS3

I develop training tutorials for Flash and have run into a
problem that I hope someone can help me with. I have not noticed
this in previous versions of Flash but something is just not right
and I cannot put my finger on it. I have tried different versions
and types of screen recorders but they all produce the same
results.
Which leads me to my question.
I have upgraded to Flash CS3 and noticed that when doing my
screen recordings the side panels, which hold the tools for Flash
are not being recorded. When I say tools I am referring to the
library, behaviors, components, etc. These are all part of the
capture screen but all I am seeing on the recording is a gray box
area. I tried it on my earlier version of Flash and the recorders
work fine.
When I drag the tools to the center of the stage, I can see
the tool properties themselves but I cannot see the tabs that allow
me to move between the tool palettes. This is very frustrating as
the recording are pretty much useless without the ability to see
the tool palettes or the tabs.
I am using Windows XP Professional
NVIDIA Geoforce 8800 GTX graphics card
4 GB's of Ram.
Intel Core 2 CPU (2.13 Ghz)
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I have spent
many hours trying to figure this out and have not made any
progress. I would like to start including ActionScript 3.0
tutorials on my web site but until I work this problem out I cannot
get recording that are of a good enought quality to post.
Thanks for any help.

I have found the solution.....Thanks everyone for reading the
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>
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>
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>
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>

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