Captivate advances when wrong click box is clicked

I have a simple slide with 5 weblinks. I need the slide to stay on screen until a user clicks a specific button to continue but that allows them to select any of the others (weblinks) before doing so - this is what I setup...
- Clickboxes were arranged for each website reference on the slide and were set up to open a new window with the webpage URL. They were not set to pause until user clicks as they should allow the slide audio to continue until done. They are also all set in the URL drop down to allow the project to continue. This seems to work fine on its own with the slide audio continuing as the user selects the webpages they want to check and the screen remained after audio completed. Perfect.
- Good so far. Now I add a button and a click box but this time set it to pause until the user clicks and set an appropriate caption. I expect it to do just that and all is well unless the slide playtime ends. If the slide has reached the end of its play time (approx 17sec) and ANY click area is clicked the presentation continues. So, regardless of whether the continue click box is clicked or and of the weblink clickboxes are, the project advances and continues playing the next slide.
Captivate does not seem to be able to discern WHICH box is clicked but I do not want the advance to occur until the user clicks this box.
Am I missing something - hopefully? This seems basic.
(this is in Captivate 5, latest release v5.0.1.624)

Issues like this make a very regular appearance on this forum. In most cases they can be easily resolved by correctly timing the pause point of relevant clickboxes and buttons, or by adjusting the pause behaviour (turning it off or on).
You need to remember that Captivate slides are not like web pages. They're really movies playing at 30 frames per second. They don't sit still like a web page does.
If you can't get the desired behaviour via timing or tuning of your clickbox/button settings, the other option you have is to use Event Handler widgets instead of clickboxes or buttons: http://www.infosemantics.com.au/catalog/widgets/interactive/wdgt_event_handler_01
You can use as many of them as you want on the same slide. They have options to disable Pause or Disable Continue, depending on what playback effect you're trying to accomplish.

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