Captivate corrupts SWFs with Audio?

Here's my challenge. Appreciat any help:
Project has six slides. In each slide, I've imported (as
animation) a SWF that contains about 30 seconds of audio dialogue.
When the project is viewed from a web server (i.e. this
problem does not occur locally), audio from the EVERY slide plays
during the playback of the first slide.
Specifically, it plays about 3 seconds of audio from the
beginning of each slide all 'on top' of each other during the first
slide.
Obviously, this is a problem, but I have been unable to find
a solution anywhere and I have tried a heck of a lot of debugging
tricks.
I can only hope this is a bug. Otherwise, what it means is
that Captivate is incapbale of managing the playback of any
imported SWF that contains audio. I thought it might be some
strange pre-loader issue, but can't figure it out.
Have a deadline Wed that it looks like I might miss if I
can't solve this. Would very much appreciate any feedback or
suggestions from the communitiy.
Thanks in advance!
David

I've got a similar, and perhaps related, problem. I'm simply
trying to import a .swf file into a new Captivate 3 presentation.
The .swf was also created in Captivate 3 (but not by me, so I do
not have the .cp file). The .swf contains audio.
When I "import animation slide" the .swf comes in just fine,
but of course not the skin or player controller. This used to be an
easy solution in Captivate 1.0, since the old skin was pegged right
to the .swf file.
If you watch my new Captivate 3 presentation and don't touch
anything while that imported slide is playing, it's just fine. But
if you click the pause button, it does not pause the animation.
Worse, if you then click Play, the audio re-starts, so now you have
the audio playing over top of itself.
Is there any way to use the Playback bar to control the
animation? I hope so!

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