Close Captions causes audio to be clipped

I'm noticing that sometimes Captivate clips some of the audio as soon as you add closed captions to a series of slides? If so, should I deal with that?
To better illustrate my point, here are the steps to repeat:
Configure three slides that are related through motion, actions, and stuff, but the audio should flow across all slides. Let's say that this audio is 10 seconds and it should be distributed across the three slides.
Record the 10-second audio on the first slide.
Export the audio to a file
Adjust the slide timing of the first slide to, say, 3 seconds.
Adjust the slide timing of the second slide to, say, 1 second (for a mouse click that occurs in the middle of the sentence of the narrator talking)
Adjust the slide timing of the last slide to, 6 or more seconds to accommodate the remaing narration (and to prevent the remaining narration from flowing into the a forth slide)
Import the audio to the first slide
Choose the third option (Retain current slide duration and distribute the audio files over several slides) when importing the audio file, so that the audio is spliced appropriately between the slides.
Select the first of the three slides
File > Preview > Next 5 slides
Audio sounds correct.
Add CC text.
File > Preview > Next 5 slides.
Audio is clipped in fits and starts through the three slides that now have CC in them.
The reason I export the audio instead of just dragging the "recording##.wav" file from the library to the first slide, is because as soon as I do that, the original 10-second audio is irreparably spliced into "(Clip)" sections and the original is lost. (If I knew where all the "Recording**.wav" files were stored, I might not need to do the export.
Anyway, I don't understand why adding closed captions should effect the audio like this. Maybe since you all have used Captivate more than I have, you might have had some experience with this and a recommendation for me. I even tried something as simple as adding a single letter "a" as the closed caption text to the first slide after the audio import and it still clipped.
I'm using Captivate 7.0.1.237

I posted a very small project with a cptx and an audio file, also published in various ways.
See: http://davesamuels.com/share/captivate
You will find:
·         Bug_AudioClippedByCC.htm
Click on this to play the .swf directly
·         Bug_AudioClippedByCC.pdf
Encapsulated in a PDF
·         Bug_AudioClippedByCC/index.html
Navigate to the folder and it should automatically start the index.html
·         Bug_AudioClippedByCC.zip
Contains all the above files/folders. It gives you the editable .cptx file.
To reproduce the problem…
1. Press F10 to listen to the two slides. You might notice a slight hiccup,
"It's always a good idea to check for error(hiccup)s in the problems tab…"
2. In the timeline pane, in the Slide Notes tab, uncheck the slide note/caption checkbox
3. Press F10 to listen to the two slides. This time, there won't be a hiccup.
Anyone know what I might be doing wrong?
I get the same results no matter how I review the project. Preview, Published, HTML 5, Web, etc.
[email protected]

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