Captivate 2 - Flash 8

When I preview, everything looks good. But when I play
through a browser (Notes, IE, Foxfire) the animated portions
(embedded swf files created in Flash 8) of the project do not show
Instead I get a what looks like a blank slide (it show the slide
color) for what should be the duration of the animation and then
just goes on it's merry way.
Just to confuse things more.... this isn't always true. Some
of the animation works. I created all the files in Flash 8. I've
tried republishing all the animations and refreshing the files in
Captivate and republishing. No Go.
Anyone have any ideas. I'm pretty sure the client is going to
notice that great big 72 sec blank screen.
I also want to thank the people who take the time to read
through these problems and help loser newbies like me. I don't know
what I would do if it wasn't for this forum. NO WAY can I afford
the tech. support programs.

Hi LeelandS,
When you publish the Captivate SWF, just notice if there is
an extra SWF also (The imported SWF, which was of version 8, before
you changed that to version 6 and 7). For SWF files of version 8,
captivate does not embed them inside captivate.swf file. So if you
are moving your captivate SWF to some pther location make sure that
the other SWF files are also moved simultaneously.
thanks

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