Color Buttons in Captivate 5

Is there any way to change the color of a button in Captivate 5? I see the text options but nothing for the button itself; does this mean buttons will need to be imported or created outside of Captivate?

In previous occasions when I've every created my own customised rollover buttons and added them to Cp's button gallery I only ever needed to select the Up state button. As long as I had named all the buttons correctly and they were the right BMP or PNG format and bit depth, Cp would look after making sure the other two button states were present at runtime.
Can I just confirm a few details:
Your buttons are either BMP 24bit, or PNG 32 bit (that's what the other buttons in the Gallery seem to be)
You have strictly followed the naming convention of my_button_up.bmp, my_button_down.bmp, my_button_over.bmp and used all lower case.
You have loaded the buttons into the correct folder location in the install file location at: Adobe\Adobe Captivate 5\Gallery\Buttons
You selected whichever version of the button Captivate shows you in the menu
You tried to view it in published HTML/SWF not just in the Preview window
Just so that we're all on the same page and know we've covered off all the obvious reasons why this might not be working.

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